Srinivas Nedunuri wrote:
I installed the Windows version of Lyx on my machine. However, when I try to start up Lyx, I get an
error message that says "lyx wasn't able to find any layout description... Check the contents
of the file "textclass.lst"". I looked at textclass.lst in .../lyx/share/lyx but I
really have no idea what I'm looking for.
(Also, when I first started up Lyx, and tried to install the ieeetrans package
from the internet, the program started thrashing the disk and eventually just
died. The above is the mssage I get when I subsequently start it up again)
thanks
If textclass.lst has zero bytes length, you've been bitten by a common
problem. There are several gotchas with the Win port of 1.3.5, mostly
due to particular verions of Unix helper programs bundled with it. Try
going to the Windows setup page on the LyX Wiki
(http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup) and implement any of the bug
fixes you haven't already tried, especially the one about upgrading to a
more recent version of sed. If none of them help, let us know and we'll
go from there (or at least commiserate).
-- Paul
