On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:08:15AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > I can now run lyx and get output. The only problem is that the
> > lyx_tmpxxxx directory is not getting removed (even though there is
> > nothing in the directories).
>
> Is the code to do so getting invoked? Ie, do you get an error message
> saying that LyX tried and failed to remove the temp directory?
This is what I do:
1) Open lyx.
2) Open->Recent files->some document
3) View->PDF (PDF LaTeX)
4) Quit Acrobar Reader
5) File->Exit
At this point, I get two dialog boxes.
The first:
Could not remove the temporary directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdirxxxxx/lyx_tmpbuf0
The second is about the enclosing directory:
Could not remove the temporary directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdirxxxxx
Now, I just did some experiments and the results are interesting. If I wait
a few seconds and then I close lyx, then all is well.
If I close lyx immediately and get the first dialog box and wait a few
seconds before hitting the OK button, I do not get the second dailog
box... Furthermore, no temp directory is left behind!
> Now that you've confirmed that LyX 1.4.x is behaving correctly, modulo this
> temp dir clean-up, I have a list of patches that I'd like to apply to the
> 1.3.x tree. These are essentially the same as the patches that have gone
> into the 1.4.x tree, so it would be good to test that all is well behaved
> after they've been applied to the LyX 1.3.x tree.
>
> Do you run LyX 1.3.x on Cygwin so that you can check that it too is
> behaving correctly after I've applied them?
No, I don't, but I can.
Best regards,
---Kayvan
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