On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 02:53:29PM -0500, Chris Marshall wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I started some documentation work using my favorite LyX cygwin > install: > > > CYGWIN_NT-10.0 mypc 3.1.7(0.340/5/3) 2020-08-22 17:48 x86_64 Cygwin > > and > > > lyx --version > > LyX 2.3.5-1 (2020-06-02) > > Configuration > > Host type: x86_64-pc-cygwin > > Special build flags: build=release std-regex use-hunspell > > use-aspell use-enchant > > Bundled libraries: boost mythes > > C++ Compiler: g++ (9.3.0) > > C++ Compiler flags: -O2 -std=c++14 > > C++ Compiler user flags: -std=c++14 -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall > > -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong > > --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 > > -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/lyx/lyx-2.3.5.1-1.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/lyx-2.3.5.1-1 > > > > -fdebug-prefix-map=/pub/devel/lyx/lyx-2.3.5.1-1.x86_64/src/lyx-2.3.5-1=/usr/src/debug/lyx-2.3.5.1-1 > > Linker flags: > > Linker user flags: > > Qt Frontend: > > Qt version: 5.9.4 > > Packaging: posix > > LyX binary dir: /usr/bin > > LyX files dir: /usr/share/lyx > > After about 5 minutes, the LyX window and frame became completely > unresponsive to mouse interaction. I could resize the window but the > contents did not resize/rearrange to fit the change in window shape. > > Doing "kill -9 PID-of-lyx" had no effect but if I killed the PPID-of-lyx > then the lyx window would close. > > I tried running LyX with "strace lyx" which was slow on starting from all > the terminal output and then the window opened but the expected contents > were never displayed. It appears that the "hang" happened before the strace > lyx could complete its initialization. > > Again, "kill -9 PID-of-lyx" had no effect but it worked if I killed the > PPID-of-lyx (i.e. strace and not bash this time). > > I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the previous cygwin release version > and even the latest cygports version. All showed the same problem. > > It may be useful that I had not had this problem previously with lyx on > windows 10 with cygwin. I don't know those version numbers but it was > before the move to Qt5 which I saw some discussion regarding LyX. > > Has anyone seen this problem and/or have an idea for a fix? It seems not to > be specific to the recent LyX version number but I am not able to try > earlier than the 2.3.4.2-2 cygwin release. > > At the moment, I am stuck without LyX under cygwin. I plan to try the > native LyX for windows to see if I can get LyX running for the near term.
If you have specified a path for the LyXServer pipe in Tools > Preferences > Paths, try removing it and restarting lyx. I also observed this strange behavior recently, and removing that path cured it. Possibly there has been a change in the fifo code in cygwin that has impacted lyx. -- Enrico -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
