THis seems to be a problem with paths and environmental variables passed to sub-processes (also mentiond on the R sig mac list): Yosemite seems to have implemented security mechanisms which do (to me) unknown things to paths and environmental variables.
So, in a nutshell: 1) If you do a reconfigure in LyX started from the icon / finder / spotlight, the reconfigure seems not to find the files needed, and does finish nearly immediately and does not creates an (empty?) configuration file 2) If you start lyx from the terminal --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- /PATH/TO/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- and reconfigure then, it is working. Workaround: Startt from terminal and reconfigure - after this everything seems to be working Solution: No idea, but I guess an update in LyX Hope this helps, Rainer Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com> writes: > Hal Kierstead wrote: >> I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work >> for me. I cannot even preview the help manuals. I can export them >> to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex. This must be some path >> problem, but I do not know how to deal with it. Any help would be >> appreciated. > > Couple of very quick ideas: > > . Perhaps reconfiguring (Tools -> reconfigure) might help. > . If you aren't using the latest version of MacTeX > <http://tug.org/mactex/>, consider upgrading. > > -chris > -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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