I have narrowed this down to having UTF-8 characters in the path where the document is stored.
This is a new issue for me. I have for years been using this folder structure with the UTF-8 name of "ᏣᎳᎩ". What is really perplexing is the fact that LyX copies all the necessary files to run the xelatex to a temp folder in /tmp, then the xelatex fails. If I run xelatex in that same temp folder with those same files, the xelatex command completes successfully. It is acting like some python thingy is assuming that things are encoded as iso-8859-1 or something? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Studio Bugs, which is subscribed to lyx in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu Studio Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875909 Title: LyX can't build PDFs / missing begin document Status in lyx package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Reconfigure results in: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py", line 1899, in <module> ret = checkLatexConfig(lyx_check_config and LATEX, bool_docbook) File "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py", line 1420, in checkLatexConfig for line in open(file, 'r', encoding='utf8').readlines(): File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa9 in position 845: invalid start byte support/Systemcall.cpp (276): Systemcall: 'python3 -tt "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py" --binary-dir="/usr/bin/"' finished with exit code 1 ``` Running 'python3 -tt "/usr/share/lyx/configure.py" --binary- dir="/usr/bin/"' in a terminal does *not* result in the error LyX is reporting and instead appears to complete successfully. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: lyx 2.3.4.2-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Wed Apr 29 10:50:55 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-08 (2182 days ago) InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 16 "petra" - Release amd64 20131126 SourcePackage: lyx UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-25 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/1875909/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs Post to : ubuntustudio-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
