> Michal> Hello all! I have upgraded from LyX 1.0.2 to 1.0.3, using
> Michal> source package. I used configure, make, make install. No
> Michal> other change, no problem. But when I run LyX, it gives message
> Michal> "LyX wasn't able to find its layout descriptions" in dialog
> Michal> box and "LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file
> Michal> `~/unknown_path'." in the console.
>
> Michal> I reinstalled 1.0.2 (from source tgz) and it works again
> Michal> well. My system is based on SuSE 6.0: Linux
> Michal> lemming.ericsson.cz 2.2.9 #9 Sat May 22 14:02:08 CEST 1999
> Michal> i586 unknown
>
> That's very strange... If you still have 1.0.3, could you check
> whether the file .lyx/textclass.lst is present?
>
> Another thing: things like that may happen if your xforms library is
> linked against libc5. Can you do
> ldd `which lyx`
> and send the result? Even on your 1.0.2 version, I think it will
> reveal you are using a bad xforms version.
>
That was it. I had libc5 version of XForms sitting on "priviledged" place.
Linker even gives warning about that, but I did make; make install, so I didn't
see it :( Anyway, it is strange, that it worked fine with 1.0.2 and that it
produced so obscure error message.
Thanks for your help,
Michal Kara alias lemming
