I posted a reply to this under a different thread .Basically the solution consisted of deleting the .lyx folder under Documents And Settings\<username> which contained an empty textclass.lst file, and then letting lyx rebuild it. Someone else posted that as a solution to a different problem they were having. I tried it and it did the trick.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 3:04 PM Subject: Re: Problem w/ Windows install: no layout description > 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
