PDF export fails with pdflatex and LuaTeX

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 2/11/20 6:04 AM, Martin Weise wrote:
> On 11.02.20 11:55, Kornel Benko wrote:
>> Am Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:21:11 +0100
>> schrieb Martin Weise <M at rtinWeise.de>:
>>
>> [snip]
>>>> Yes, it looks related. Apparently the 'pdflatex' called from lyx does not create
>>>> the required pdf file to be used to display the image.
>>>> Maybe the environment used by lyx is different from the one if you compile
>>>> manually.
>>>>
>>>> 1.) Could you start lyx from the terminal?
>>> 1. Yes.
>> I meant, is it working if restarted from terminal?
> No. Same result.
>
>
>>>> 2.) does the '.lyx' directory contain *.lst files (11 files) and configure.log
>>> 2. Here's a list of the files in the .lyx dir:
>>>
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin   4061 Feb 11 10:33 bibFiles.lst
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 bind
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin  23214 Feb 11 10:33 bstFiles.lst
>>> drwx------ 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:39 cache
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 clipart
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin  31483 Feb 11 10:33 clsFiles.lst
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin  66314 Feb 11 10:33 configure.log
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 doc
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 examples
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 images
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 kbd
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 layouts
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin      0 Feb 11 10:44 .lyx_configure_lock
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin  16117 Feb 11 10:33 lyxmodules.lst
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin  25959 Feb 11 10:33 lyxrc.defaults
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin   1784 Feb 11 10:33 packages.lst
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 scripts
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin    387 Feb 11 11:14 session
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin 310031 Feb 11 10:33 styFiles.lst
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 templates
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martin martin   9013 Feb 11 10:33 textclass.lst
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 martin martin   4096 Feb 11 10:33 ui
>>>
>>> (Note that I reinstalled lyx at 10:30 today and deleted the .lyx
>>> directory before I did so)
>> Missing files: bbxFiles.lst, cbxFiles.lst, lyxciteengines.lst, xtemplates.lst
>>
>> clsFiles.lst looks too small compared to full installed texlive
> That's weird. I definitely did a full texlive install (apt-get install
> texlive-full). I also purged that due to the problems with LyX, cleared
> the apt-get cache and reinstalled it - but to no avail.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
The lock file is a bit odd. I would expect that to be deleted after 
configuration completed.

It might help to see the contents of configure.log. Possibly something 
went splat during the configuration process.

Paul