Following the recent exchanges on the lyx-user list, I gave the most recent version of the SVN code a try (revision 33559) . Unsuccessfully, it turns out. Lyx crashes while scrolling a very simple document, with the following output to console:
QPainter::setFont: Painter not active QPainter::font: Painter not active ------a few screenfuls of the above, then ---- QPainter::setPen: Painter not active Error returned from iconv Some other error: 11 QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted Some other error: 11 /usr/include/c++/4.4/debug/vector:272:error: attempt to subscript container with out-of-bounds index 24, but container only holds 19 elements. Objects involved in the operation: sequence "this" @ 0x0x3d9bec0 { type = NSt7__debug6vectorIN3lyx3RowESaIS2_EEE; } lyx --version reports: LyX 2.0.0svn (not released yet) Built on Feb 24 2010, 12:29:34 Configuration Host type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Special build flags: concept-checks stdlib-debug assertions warnings use-aspell use-enchant use-hunspell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -Wextra -Wall -g -O C++ Compiler: g++ (4.4.1) C++ Compiler LyX flags: C++ Compiler flags: -Wextra -Wall -g -O Linker flags: Linker user flags: Qt 4 Frontend: Qt 4 version: 4.6.1 Packaging: posix The problem disappears if I uncheck continuous spelling. I can provide a backtrace if someone is willing to teach me how to convince gdb to start lyx with -sysdir and -userdir parameters. I cannot reproduce the crash with Lyx help documents--only with some of my own. But I cannot figure out what triggers it. Cheers, S. ______________________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-4237