On Saturday 23 June 2007 18:11, Wolfgang Engelmann shared this with us all: >--} 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
I have never seen the problems you describe above, in any version of Lyx. I am using Lyx 1.4.4 in Debian Lenny on this lappy at the moment, and that version in Debian Etch on another laptop. After installing Lyx, since I first began using it, on each occasion, create a /home/charlie/Lyx directory. Within this directory is one for backup, one for templates one for Lyx about itself, a temp file, usually called /home/charlie/Lyx/sometimes or something else. Then a directory for each topic or purpose I use Lyx for, and this is all placed in the Paths dialogue from with Lyx. From this point on, I just work with Lyx. Hope that helps you. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know. -------------- Confucius *********************************************** Debian ___________________________________________________________
