On Saturday 18 April 2009 10:05:22 pm Ken wrote: > Occasionally LyX will crash on me (current version 1.6.2). I have no > idea what causes it so I shouldn't really open a bug report. > > Is there some other way of reporting crashes? Could a LyX add-on > allow the program to send crash reports automatically? Does anyone > else experience occasional crashes? > > A crash is not a big deal as I hit Ctrl+S to save almost instinctively > after any significant modification to the document. I was just > wondering whether it would be useful to other users and/or the > developers to have a consistent way to report crashes (which are not > obviously reproducible). > > Ken
If it is at all predictable, you can open LyX from a terminal and see if anything is written when it crashes. But if it is only once in a while, that would take perseverance. Doug.