Am Samstag, 23. Juni 2007 11:18 schrieb José Matos: > On Saturday 23 June 2007 09:11:24 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > /home/wolfgang/Lyx-tmp/ > > need > > /home/wolfgang/tmp/ ?? > > > > Any Linux user there who knows? > > I never saw the problems you are describing. :-) > > If I understand you correctly you said that as soon as you changed the > temporary directory to your home area lyx started complaining that it could > not create temporary files in /tmp?
This is what happended: Lyx was complaining about not enough space in ///tmp/lyx_tmpdir.... since ///tmp is in my case a separate partition (was probably a bad idea!) and has only 140MB I changed in Lyx the path to /home/wolfgang/Lyx-tmp. I furthermore removed the content of /lyx_tmpdir in ///tmp I started Lyx and got the message LyX could not create the temporary directory '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir63043uH0e4' I followed the advice of Paul Rubin: 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. Lyx created '/tmp/lyx_tmpdir... ' again and I could use Lyx again. However, the problem stays with me, that the space of the ///tmp file is quickly exhausted (with just one run of a Lyx file -it contains lots of figures): 133 out of 140 MB are occupied. I don´t know whether I can reduce the size of another partition and increase the /tmp-partition. As you have noticed, I am quite unexperienced with administrative work and fear things end up in chaos. I would therefore prefer to use the method I tried (redirect path to /tmp in my home/wolfgang), if I can avoid the problem I described before > > What version are using? (1.4.x I assume). 1.4.3 Wolfgang
