No one here has any reaction to this? It's been two days....
Eric
> On Tuesday August 27 2002 16:28, Eric Schabell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a long time user of lyx but am having the same sort of problem as was
> mentioned on the lists once about missing menu entries in the VIEW menu
> (for viewing as {ps|pdf|dvi|...}). I saw the problem this person was having
> was related to .lyx config files from 1.2.0 being used with 1.2.1, so I
> removed ~/.lyx, tried reconfigure and still no enties.
>
> I played with the "lyx -dbg init" and playing with prefereneces (selecting
> gv and such in the gv conversion display section). This got me up to a HTML
> (after adding viewer as dillo), Latex (view as emacs) and Ascii (viewer as
> emacs) entries in VIEW menu.
>
> I am really not understanding why it can't find the entries for all the
> tools installed for conversions which are in the same place they have
> always been (/usr/bin); gv, xdvi, ps2<whatever>, etc....
>
> So now I have uninstalled lyx, cleaned out all my user lyx files in ~/.lyx
> and setup again to be able to report from a clean install.
>
> I run a sourcebased linux distro called SourceMage, have compiled lyx with
> the following setup:
>
> ./configure --build=i686 --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> --localstatedir=/var make
> make install
>
> This puts everything in /usr/share/lyx with the exception of:
> /usr/bin/{lyx | noweb2lyx | reLyX}
> /usr/doc/lyx
> /usr/man/man1/{lyx.1 | reLyX.1}
>
> The output from "lyx -dbg init":
> Setting debug level to init
> Debugging `init' (Program initialisation)
> Initializing LyXGUI...
> Initializing LyXGUI...done
> Initializing LyX::init...
> Name of binary: lyx
> Path of binary: /home/erics/
> Checking whether LyX is run in place... no
> System directory search path: /home/share/lyx/;/usr/share/lyx
> System directory: '/usr/share/lyx/'
> User LyX directory: '/home/erics/.lyx/'
> DPI setting detected to be 75.4917
> About to read lyxrc.defaults...
> Found lyxrc.defaults in /home/erics/.lyx/lyxrc.defaults
> About to read preferences...
> Could not find preferences
> About to read lyxrc...
> Could not find lyxrc
> About to read encodings...
> Reading encoding iso8859-2
> <snip more encodings>
> About to read languages...
> Reading language afrikaans
> <snip reding more languages>
> Reading layouts...
> About to read default...
> Found default in /usr/share/lyx/ui/default.ui
> LyX tmp dir: `/tmp/lyx_tmpdir16236XPlMFO'
> Reading lastfiles `/home/erics/.lyx/lastfiles'...
> Initializing LyX::init...done
> Initializing LyXView...
> Initializing LyXFunc
> Initializing LyXView...done
> Initializing key mappings...
>
> And output from reconfigure:
> checking for a LaTeX2e program... (latex latex2e)
> +checking for "latex"... not useable
> +checking for "latex2e"... no
> checking for a LaTeX -> LyX converter... (reLyX)
> +checking for "reLyX"... yes
> checking for a Noweb -> LyX converter... (noweb2lyx)
> +checking for "noweb2lyx"... yes
> checking for a Noweb -> LaTeX converter... (noweave)
> +checking for "noweave"... no
> checking for a HTML -> Latex converter... (html2latex)
> +checking for "html2latex"... no
> checking for a MSWord -> Latex converter... (wvCleanLatex word2x)
> +checking for "wvCleanLatex"... no
> +checking for "word2x"... no
> checking for Image converter... (convert)
> +checking for "convert"... yes
> checking for a Postscript interpreter... (gs)
> +checking for "gs"... yes
> checking for a Postscript previewer... (gv ghostview)
> +checking for "gv"... yes
> checking for a PDF preview... (acroread gv ghostview xpdf)
> +checking for "acroread"... yes
> checking for a DVI previewer... (xdvi windvi yap)
> +checking for "xdvi"... yes
> checking for a HTML previewer... (netscape)
> +checking for "netscape"... no
> checking for a PS to PDF converter... (ps2pdf)
> +checking for "ps2pdf"... yes
> checking for a DVI to PS converter... (dvips)
> +checking for "dvips"... yes
> checking for a DVI to PDF converter... (dvipdfm)
> +checking for "dvipdfm"... no
> checking for a *roff formatter... ('groff -t -Tlatin1 16243FName' nroff)
> +checking for "groff"... yes
> checking for ChkTeX... (chktex -n1 -n3 -n6 -n9 -n22 -n25 -n30 -n38)
> +checking for "chktex"... no
> checking for a spell-checker... (ispell)
> +checking for "ispell"... yes
> checking for a fax program... (ksendfax)
> +checking for "ksendfax"... no
> checking for SGML-tools 1.x (LinuxDoc)... (sgml2lyx)
> +checking for "sgml2lyx"... yes
> checking for SGML-tools 2.x (DocBook) or db2x scripts... (sgmltools db2dvi)
> +checking for "sgmltools"... no
> +checking for "db2dvi"... no
> checking for a spool command... (lp lpr)
> +checking for "lp"... no
> +checking for "lpr"... no
> checking for a LaTeX -> HTML converter... (tth latex2html hevea)
> +checking for "tth"... no
> +checking for "latex2html"... yes
> checking for an Image -> EPS converter... (convert pnmtops)
> +checking for "convert"... yes
> checking for an Image -> PNG converter... (convert pnmtopng)
> +checking for "convert"... yes
> checking for an Image -> XPM converter... (convert)
> +checking for "convert"... yes
> checking for an EPS -> PDF converter... (epstopdf)
> +checking for "epstopdf"... yes
> checking for a Grace -> Image converter... (gracebat)
> +checking for "gracebat"... no
> checking for an FIG -> EPS/XPM converter... (fig2dev)
> +checking for "fig2dev"... no
> checking LaTeX configuration... default values
> creating textclass.lst
> creating packages.lst
> creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx
> creating lyxrc.defaults
> checking for TeX fonts
> checking [for cmex10]... no
> checking [for cmmi10]... no
> checking [for cmr10]... no
> checking [for cmsy10]... no
> checking [for eufm10]... no
> checking [for msam10]... no
> checking [for msbm10]... no
> removing textclass.lst, which is identical to the system global version
> removing packages.lst, which is identical to the system global version
> removing doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx, which is identical to the system global
> version mv: cannot stat `xfonts/fonts.dir': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot stat `xfonts/fonts.dir.new': No such file or directory
>
> I have just used the document that opens in the begining (splash.lyx).
> Any ideas? I have lost a complete day trying to sort this out.... :(
