Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
OK, Sorry to write this now. But actually, with Oliver's method, \alpha = 2\times \beta pressing 6 times ctrl-z I can 100% a crash. But, only after I placed in a Section Heading. So we have probably the same bug. Best Regards, Erez On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Olivier Ripoll < [EMAIL

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear All, I have been following all your comments quietly. Unfortunately, I don't know how to contribute to the discussion. I can reproduce crashes, but I can't find exactly a systematic way to do it. I just spent 15 min, and made 5 crashes. What I need to do is the following: Open up a math bo

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Micha Feigin wrote: > Did some more tests, it depends on two things, the outliner being open and > for the displayed math formula to be just after a section header (the > first line of the paragraph). With this combination the crash is very > consistent OK, then it's the mentioned bug. As said, a

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:59:35 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: I see this a LOT when I press ctrl-z (undo), more then 50% of the time it crashes. Didn't loose information due to it so far though. Yes, this looks very much like http://

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:59:35 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I see this a LOT when I press ctrl-z (undo), more then 50% of the time it > > crashes. Didn't loose information due to it so far though. > > Yes, this looks very much like > http://bugzil

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Micha Feigin wrote: > I see this a LOT when I press ctrl-z (undo), more then 50% of the time it > crashes. Didn't loose information due to it so far though. Yes, this looks very much like http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5499 which is about undo crashes that occur (a.o.) in math mode IF t

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see this a LOT when I press ctrl-z (undo), more then 50% of the time it > crashes. Didn't loose information due to it so far though. > > This is under linux BTW (1.6.0 debian package, 64bit system) This is weird. I would be interested by a recipe and/or

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Olivier Ripoll wrote: 1- I'm a windows user on my company's laptop, not _my_ laptop. I have to limit somehow what I install on it. Would you believe that I am using Windows at home and Linux at work? :-) 2- Compiling on Windows has the reputation to be way work pain than on Linux ("./confi

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:58:22 +0100 Olivier Ripoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > >> Happens when: > >> Many times when I write in math equations. > >> And also happened a few times when I shift the tool bars to different > >> positions. > >> > >

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: So mere users like us would need a special binary to test that :-) So, step out of the mere-usership, get VCExpress (free), get Subversion (free), get the LyX sources (free) and compile your own ;-). My personal computer @ home is linux-only. I have compiled Ly

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
So mere users like us would need a special binary to test that :-) So, step out of the mere-usership, get VCExpress (free), get Subversion (free), get the LyX sources (free) and compile your own ;-). Best regards, Olivier Vincent P.S. I'm afraid bug 5472 is not suited for generating a b

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Olivier Ripoll wrote: The most common crash on Windows (#5472: the crash when copy operation is followed by opening a MS Office program) does not result in any data loss (the emergency save does its job). So Erez's crash is not a duplicate of it as far as I can say. N

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Olivier Ripoll wrote: > The most common crash on Windows (#5472: the crash when copy operation > is followed by opening a MS Office program) does not result in any data > loss (the emergency save does its job). So Erez's crash is not a > duplicate of it as far as I can say. No. But of this (toolba

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Happens when: Many times when I write in math equations. And also happened a few times when I shift the tool bars to different positions. Do others have this problem? These are known bugs (reported at bugzilla), and we hope to sort them out for

Re: frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > Happens when: > Many times when I write in math equations. > And also happened a few times when I shift the tool bars to different > positions. > > Do others have this problem? These are known bugs (reported at bugzilla), and we hope to sort them out for 1.6.1. Jürgen

frequent unexpected lyx 1.6.0 crashes - loss of work

2008-12-01 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear all, I don't know how to report this as a bug. I get very frequent crashes in lyx 1.6. (I use win-xp). Output says LyX SIGSEGV signal caught. LyX shuts down on its own, without saving my work. Happens when: Many times when I write in math equations. And also happened a few times when I sh