Fwd: Re: no modules availables

[Jose Ramom Flores das Seixas]

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Assunto: 	Re: no modules availables
Data: 	Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:56:29 +0200
De: 	Jose Ramom Flores das Seixas <jose.ramom.flores.das.seixas at gmail.com>
Para: 	José Abílio Matos <jamatos at lyx.org>



Às 23:37 de 14/08/20, José Abílio Matos escreveu:
>
> On Friday, 14 August 2020 16.28.22 WEST Jose Ramom Flores das Seixas 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi:
>
> >
>
> > I take a long time without using LyX, but my package manager has been
>
> > updating lyx when new versions come out. Nowadays, I have installed 
> version
>
> > 2.3.5.2 (OS: Ubuntu 18.04).
>
> >
>
> > Today I tried to edit a file, with lyxformat 544, but LyX tells me a 
> module
>
> > is missing. Looking at the module dialogue I found that no module is
>
> > available.
>
> >
>
> > I've checked that the standard module files are in 
> /usr/share/lyx/layouts,
>
> > and besides them I have some other modules in ~/.lyx/layouts.
>
> >
>
> > When I run LyX from a terminal I can notice the following error:
>
> >
>
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa9 in position 395:
>
> > invalid start byte support/Systemcall.cpp (276): Systemcall: 'python -tt
>
> > "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py" --binary-dir="/usr/bin/"' finished 
> with exit
>
> > code 1
>
> >
>
> > LyX: Done!
>
> From experience this means that you have a old layout file or module 
> that have an encoding that is not utf-8. In your case I assume that 
> the culprit is either in latin1 or latin9 (the difference between 
> those is the presence/absence of the euro sign).
>
> Also I thought that we had fixed all the remainder errors like this in 
> 2.3.5.2
>
> So my suggestion is to go to your personal lyx directory and check the 
> encoding of file. By default in linux the location of the personal 
> directory is ~/.lyx. You can see this in LyX using the menu: 
> Help->About LyX->Version and see the User dir entry there.
>
> Using the shell in my case I have:
>
> $ cd ~/.lyx
>
> $ file bind/*
>
> bind/user.bind: ASCII text
>
> My suggestion is to check the layouts directory that could be the 
> likely source of the problem:
>
> $ file layouts/*
>
You got it right, as I had several old modules from Editorium 
<http://www.editorium.com/lyxconverter.htm> of type:

    Non-ISO extended-ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators

I have converted them to

    UTF-8 Unicode text

and now configure.py recognizes all the modules.

On the other hand, executing *Reconfigure* inside LyX no longer gives an 
error message.

However, it still does not recognize Inkscape, even though it is 
installed. So in the log file the following is listed:

    INFO: checking for a SVG -> PDFTeX converter...INFO: +checking for
    "inkscape"... no

Thanks you very much

Ramom

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