I have the following problem: Sometimes LyX (cvs, xforms 1.0RC4) chrashes with collapsing X-Window after generating of the ppm files for the preview.
This problem does not depend of the number of formulas (also for about 300 formulas). Sometimes the text can be read, some minor changes lead to chrashes, some addititional minor changes allow to read the text again with preview. So I had a text, which chrashed. I opened the text with LyX (qt3), added a formula, saved the text with new name. Then I deleted the formula with an editor. The new text could then be read with LyX (xforms) and preview works. The onyl difference of the tow files were some additional empty spaces. However, it does not work every time. Angus Leeming ask me for a bootstrap. The question is, how to make it: If I run gdb lyx-cvs1.3.0 then I cannot enter bt, because X-Window is collapsing. I tried to start X-Window in the debugger, gdb xdm, gdb kdm, gdb xinit but X-Window stops (the window manager is not startet). Then I changed the ulimit value. So LyX generates now a core file, if LyX chrashes alone. With gdb -c core and then bt I could make the bootstrap. But if X-Window collapses too, as described above, I don't get a core file. Does somebody has an idea to make the bootstrap? Norbert Koksch