Success of LyX to dvi depends on file paths

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 3/23/23 21:40, Paul Stansell wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 01:29, Richard Kimberly Heck 
> <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On 3/23/23 21:21, Paul Stansell wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > I have a very strange problem in which the successful processing
>     of a
>     > simple LyX file to a dvi file depends on the location of the LyX
>     file
>     > and the location of the png image file it contains.  If I move
>     either
>     > the LyX file or the png file to different directories the files
>     > process correctly to a dvi file.
>
>     Is there anything odd about the directory name? Spaces? Non-ASCII
>     characters? Some of the utilities LyX uses might not like those.
>
>
> No, nothing at all.  I even zipped up the offending files into a tar 
> file so I could attach it as an example, but when I tested it by 
> untaring the files in /tmp, instead of in my home directory, 
> everything worked fine.  In that case all the path names were 
> identical except that of my home directory.  It's very strange.

Have you tried launching LyX from a terminal? You might get some useful 
error messages that way.

One possibility is some weird permissions problem. Are you using SE Linux?

Riki



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