On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:00:22PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kayvan> I was still seeing it, but apparently it was a problem with > Kayvan> XFree86 4.1.0 under Cygwin, not a LyX problem. It had gotten > Kayvan> into a weird state where some of the startup calls from LyX > Kayvan> were failing (I'm not exactly sure what happened). > > Kayvan> To me, it looked like an architecture-independant problem, > Kayvan> since I ran lyx on all the machines I have access to and I got > Kayvan> aborts all around. ;-) When I started thinking that my X > Kayvan> server had gotten wedged, I applied the Windows motto: "When > Kayvan> in doubt, reboot." and now all is fine. > > That's a bit surprising, since you backtrace points to an assert in > our symlink-following code. Did you symlink the lyx binary (does such > a thing even exist?). > > JMarc
No, there was no symlink. This may still point to a bug in LyX, but it's
not simply a "startup core dump" problem.
The backtrace I sent was from a Linux machine, since it seemed to be
happening everywhere for me.
---Kayvan
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