Hi, kudos to Paul for suggesting me to remove my ~/.lyx directory, it worked and the issues has not reappeared. I'm a bit puzzled because I've been trying to isolate the origin of issue but had no luck. I'll try harder if I have the time. Thanks again to everybody,
Emme On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Michele Cascella <michele.casce...@pi.infn.it> wrote: > Hi, > lyx is giving me the: > "The system reconfiguration has failed. > Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly. > Please reconfigure again if needed." > > error message, but everything seems to be working. I can't figure out > what's wrong from the configure.py output or from the LaTeXConfig.lyx > (attached). > > Am I missing something? Could you take a look at them? > > Cheers, > > Emme > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Paul A. Rubin <ru...@msu.edu> wrote: >> Jason Waskiewicz wrote: >>> >>> Thank-you for the quick help (especially Paul Rubin)! >> >> You're welcome. Been there, done that. The T-shirt didn't fit. >> >>> For any who are interested, I ran configure.py. It turned out that LyX was >>> failing because of a .layout file I no longer use. When I copied my >>> favorites into the new copy of LyX, I must have not been thinking and copied >>> this old one in as well. >>> >>> I'm not sure why it didn't work (it used to), but removing it solved the >>> problem. >> >> During one of the version updates (I think from 1.5.x to 1.6), changes were >> made that broke some layout files. There's a conversion script >> (layout2layout.py) in the scripts directory; don't know if LyX automatically >> tries to run it against old layouts during a reconfiguration or not. >> >> /Paul >> >> >
