Thanks; no, no preview was done. In fact, all I did was to type in
hello.
save the document, and then exit.
On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
A S Hodel wrote:
I've been attempting to use LyX on a G4 iCube (Mac OS X 10.3.9). I
regularly get dialog windows with messages like:
Could not remove the temporary directory
/tmp/lyx_tmpdir24268OWp5HN/lyx_tmpbuf0
I've checked the /tmp directory: the folder in question is there, and
permissions are appropriately set, so I'm at a loss as to why this
error occurs.
Hodel-iCube:/tmp/lyx_tmpdir24268OWp5HN hodelas$ ls -lRa
.:
total 0
drwx------ 4 hodelas wheel 136 Aug 16 09:26 .
drwxrwxrwt 14 root wheel 476 Aug 16 09:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 hodelas wheel 68 Aug 16 09:26 lyx_tmpbuf0
srwxr-xr-x 1 hodelas wheel 0 Aug 16 09:26 lyxsocket
./lyx_tmpbuf0:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 hodelas wheel 68 Aug 16 09:26 .
drwx------ 4 hodelas wheel 136 Aug 16 09:26 ..
When I get this error, it's usually because I'm exiting LyX (or
perhaps closing a document) while I still have yap or Acrobat Reader
viewing the document. So the temporary document file (.dvi or .pdf)
can't be deleted because the viewer has it locked, which means the
folder can't be deleted.
Your directory listing shows the temp directory empty, so if you did
the listing right after getting the error message (without exiting a
viewer, closing LyX, etc.) then that's not the explanation.
/Paul
A Scottedward Hodel, PhD, Associate Professor
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 200 Broun Hall
Auburn University, AL 36849-5201
(334) 844-1854 Fax: (34) 844-1809
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas
