Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 20:56 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Thanks, Paul, > No. Find the 'preferences' file in your home directory (might be under > .lyx on a Linux system -- I'm on Windoze, so I'm not sure). Open it > with an editor (presumably not LyX) and find the file section. There > should be an entry labeled \tempdir_path. Delete it, save the file, and > try to start LyX. This should revert you to the original /tmp. This > works with 1.5.0rc1, but I'm pretty sure it's the same on 1.4.4.
that worked; however, the reason I changed to another path (/home/wolfgang/lyx-tmp) was that my /tmp in root is a separate partition and has not enough space. So this helps for the time being, but is not a permanent solution. But I am sure that it should work under the Lyx settings. Does my directory in /home/wolfgang/ has to be /tmp, because Lyx is looking for that kind? This is my entrance in the /-lyx/preferences file: # # FILE SECTION ###################################### # \tempdir_path "/home/wolfgang/Lyx-tmp/" it was already there (since I had changed it before troubles started). So I got Lyx to work again due to your help, but need another hint > > I'm a bit fuzzy on what you did (and why it went wrong). The > cannot-create message suggests either a nonexistent path or a > permissions problem. The /tmp directory in my Debian Linux OS is under root, but permits reading and writing in the containing subdirs > Again, I'm not a Linux user (although I have > fooled around with it in the past), but doesn't /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... imply > that tmp is mounted at the root level? (Apologies if I flubbed the > terminology there.) If I were using a local temp directory, I would > have assumed it would look like /home/tmp or /user/<me?>/tmp. /home/wolfgang/Lyx-tmp/ need /home/wolfgang/tmp/ ?? Any Linux user there who knows? Wolfgang
