On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 02:30:30PM -0700, list_em...@icloud.com wrote: > > I found the problem—it was a broken LyX pipe or something like that. > (I don’t understand this well.) I discovered that when LyX quit it was > leaving .lyxpipe.in and .lyxpipe.out and the LyX wiki says that these > should be deleted when LyX quit. > > How did I figure this out? I was using BibDesk (Mac GUI for BibTeX) > and the “Send to LyX” command. It failed with a very specific error > dialog about the LyX pipe. So I figured that Skim must do something > similar. > > Is it possible to have LyX also provide a helpful error dialog when > there are pipe problems instead of just failing quietly?
LyX detects dangling pipes on start and automatically deletes them. I don't know why this mechanism was not working for you. -- Enrico
