Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: > It seems that when some files are not readable, lyx crashes. This is > wrong of course. Could you try to run LyX under strace > strace lyx > and post the last few lines of output? This should give s the name of > the file/directory that caused a problem, and therefore a hint about > what to do.
Well said! I did the strace and part of the result was: ==quote== getcwd("/home/siebeck", 256) = 14 stat64("/home/siebeck/lyx", 0xbfc34e10) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin/lyx", 0xbfc34e10) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/lib/kde3/bin/lyx", 0xbfc34e10) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) futex(0x44beae8, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = 0 write(2, "terminate called after throwing "..., 48terminate called after throwing an instance of ') = 48 write(2, "boost::filesystem::basic_filesys"..., 118boost::filesystem::basic_filesystem_error<boost::filesystem::basic_path<std::string, boost::filesystem::path_traits> >) = 118 write(2, "\'\n", 2' ) = 2 write(2, " what(): ", 11 what(): ) = 11 write(2, "boost::filesystem::exists", 25boost::filesystem::exists) = 25 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 tgkill(12119, 12119, SIGABRT) = 0 --- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT +++ ==unquote== So what I did was to create a directory ~/lyx and then I started lyx again. Wow! Lyx started, created a directory ~/.lyx, checked for all the helper programs, document classes, packages and whatever and was up and running! The funny (or strange) part is: 1. there is no directory ~root/lyx 2. under Kubuntu, there is no directory ~/lyx for non-root user Many thanks for the hint to Jean-Marc! Greetings from Phuket, Thailand Wolfgang -- Fempf Halbe sen so viel wia a Schnitzel, ond dann hosch emmr no nix dronga.