Sorry for the slow response. Running from a terminal indeed showed repeated configuration runs. Near the top of the first run (and only the first run) were these lines:
+Running LyX configure with Python 3.9.18 Checking for upgrade from previous version. Found directory "/Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3". Skip cache /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3/cache Content copied from directory "/Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3”. I found three identical copies of chkconfig.ltx in each of /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.1/chkconfig.ltx /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.2/chkconfig.ltx /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3/chkconfig.ltx I zipped all of them and trashed the original. Now LyX 2.4.0 RC3 runs great. Thanks for that tip. I know how that file got there: LyX put it there. Maybe if the configuration file has changed for 2.4 then it shouldn’t copy old versions. Note that 2.4 apparently just copies a bunch of stuff from the 2.3 directory because now there is this file: /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4/chkconfig.ltx.zip which is obviously a copy of the file that I zipped, likely from the corresponding 2.3 directory. There is now no chkconfig.ltx in the 2.4 directory. Jerry > On Feb 14, 2024, at 4:13 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <jspi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Am Montag, dem 12.02.2024 um 22:59 -0700 schrieb list_em...@icloud.com: >> I’m sorry to report continuing problems on macOS 12.7.2, Monterey >> with LyX 2.4.0 RC3. >> >> Hangs (pinwheel) on first launch with only Apple and LyX menu items, >> then same on second launch. Very low CPU and memory use. Force quit >> both. >> >> Deleted /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4/ >> >> Re-launch. Opens “Welcome to LyX!”. Then I did Document -> View -> >> (PDF (pdflatex)). No PDF is created. Instead, rapid looping of some >> messages in the status bar, apparently involved with TeX stuff, such >> as “Indexing TeX files… .” Document -> Cancel Export has no effect. >> At the same time, about 24 files are being written or modified in >> /Users/me/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4/ every 1-3 seconds. I >> am able to capture the contents of e.g. configure.log. Attempt to >> quit normally causes this dialog: " LyX could not be closed because >> documents are being processed by LyX.” >> >> Force quit again. >> >> Re-launch. Hangs as on first launch; no Welcome. >> >> Re-boot. Same sort of behavior. Safe boot. Same: Sometimes opens >> Welcome then hangs. Sometimes doesn’t finish drawing menu bar and >> hangs. Sometimes opens Welcome and hangs when trying to open a new >> file. Can no longer get to where I can attempt to make a PDF. > > Can you open LyX from a Terminal window and observe the output? Is it > possible that the configuration of LyX gets repeatedly run in a loop? > > I have had that when I first installed 2.4.x without version suffix, > and it turned out I had an old version of chkconfig.ltx in my personal > LyX directory (no idea how it ended there). As the configure syntax > significantly changed, this broke configuration. Removing the file > fixed the issue for me. > > Maybe LyX 2.4 also accesses some outdated configuration files in your > case. Or the configuration (or some conversion) fails for another > reason. > > Terminal output might help us pinpointing the issue. > > -- > Jürgen > -- > lyx-devel mailing list > lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
