Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
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.
Did you create this directory, and did you give it access permissions
consistent with whatever user id LyX runs under?
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'
Since I'm not using Linux, I can't be sure, but it seems to me that if
LyX recognized the change you made to the temp path, the error message
should not refer to /tmp/... (My only hesitation is the possibility that
whoever programmed the error message hard-coded /tmp in the message,
but I'm almost positive that's not the case.)
Again, I'm guessing, but maybe LyX tried to write to
/home/wolfgang/Lyx-tmp, couldn't find it (or lacked permission),
reverted to /tmp and then couldn't write there. I don't think LyX will
create ./Lyx-tmp under /home/wolfgang; you'll need to do that yourself
(and set the permissions if necessary).
/Paul
