Wolfgang Siebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well said! I did the strace and part of the result was: > 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
I think the culprit was actually: > stat64("/usr/lib/kde3/bin/lyx", 0xbfc34e10) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) JMarc