Hi all,
I have a very perplexing but utterly repeatable crash that I'm trying to
diagnose, to determine whether I should file a ticket (or whether it's
not a LyX issue). I'd appreciate any insight. Apologies for the length
of what follows.
I'm running LyX 2.2.3 on Linux Mint 18.3 MATE. The Qt version is 4.8.7
(both compile-time and run-time). I have Aspell, Enchant and Myspell
installed. The OS uses English (US) as its default language.
Symptom #1: With Aspell selected as the spellchecker, if I attempt to
spellcheck any document, no matter how simple, LyX crashes. The crash
message is
.cset" could not be opened for reading or does not exist.lib/aspell/
Aborted (core dumped)
With Enchant selected, there is no problem.
Symptom #2: With Aspell set as the spellchecker, if I right click in any
empty document, or on the handle of a float, things work as expected. If
I right click in the text area of a non-empty document, I get the same
crash. Here's the tail of output when I ran LyX with dbg -any and
triggered the crash:
frontends/qt4/Menus.cpp (2342): Context menu requested: context-edit
frontends/qt4/Menus.cpp (2297): Triggered menu: context-edit
AspellChecker.cpp (214): aspell user dir: /home/paul/.lyx/
AspellChecker.cpp (217): aspell sysdir dir: /usr/share/lyx/
.cset" could not be opened for reading or does not exist.lib/aspell/
Aborted (core dumped)
So the right-click triggered a context menu, which then somehow seems to
have invoked Aspell (?!) and caused the crash.
Just to make this dopier, I have the same operating system and same
version of LyX installed on my laptop and an older PC with no problems.
The crash is happening on a new machine (with a different chip
architecture, which hopefully does not matter) that I'm breaking in.
Any suggestions on (a) why a right-click in the middle of some text
would have anything to do with the spellchecker and (b) why Aspell is
blowing up on just this one machine?
Thanks,
Paul
