LyX 2.5.0 RC1 frequent crashes

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

> On 11/3/25 6:54 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 11/3/25 12:43 PM, Gerhard Gsänger via lyx-users wrote:
>>> I experience crashes every second day. Unfortunately I’m unable to 
>>> describe how to duplicate the problem. Mac M2 OS Tahoe what can I do 
>>> to provide better information. 
>> If you immediately write down what you were doing when the crash 
>> occurred, that would help quite a lot. If you can run LyX from a 
>> terminal, you may get some kind of backtrace, which could also help. 
>> Are you running any background tools, like clipboard managers or 
>> anything like that? 
>
> From Gerhard:
>
> I have the impression that the crash occurs when I scrolled several lines up or down. However. I’m not sure about that.
>
> I use Yoink in the background. I think this is what you called a clipboard manager, isn’t it.
I am not on Mac, so I do not know.
> For the troubleshooting, I will leave it tuned off for a while.
>
> Where can I find instructions for running LyX from a terminal and how to access the backtrace. I will be happy to try it.
Anyone on OSX who can explain how to do this?

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