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

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