Bug#375245: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#375245: lyx-qt: Can't do dvi preview
of FAQ
Ross Boylan
RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org
Sat Jun 24 20:49:20 UTC 2006
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:21:27PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> Ross Boylan:
> > In lyx I select Help | FAQ. I type ^d in the resulting document.
> >
> > An error dialogue comes up. the top panel shows (transcription, I can't copy it):
> > Font T1/cmr/bx/n/9=ecbx0900 at 9.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not foun
> > Font T1/cmr/m/it/9=ectiO900 at 9.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not foun
> > I'm not sure about the letter O vs the digit 0 above. The final "d"
> > is missing in the original.
> >
> >
> > The bottom panel shows
> > \begin{abstract}
> >
> > I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
> > so I will ignore the font specification.
> > [Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
> > You might try inserting a different font spec;
> > e.g., type `I\font<same font id>=<substitute font name>'.
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The message that it will ignore the specification sounds as if it
> > might proceed with the display, but it does not.
> >
> > In itself this isn't a big deal, but it's a bit embarrassing for the
> > system to fail on its own help files. It also may be a sign of some
> > more general problem.
>
> But it doesn't display, you say? Then it's quite a big problem.
>
> However, it does work for me. What if you remove (or rename) your
> ~/.lyx directory, does it make any difference?
No.
>
> Also, I'm a bit confused about the "T1" in the error message, since
> the cmr font in latex-xft-fonts is a truetype font, at least on my
> system. You don't happen to have a Type1 (PostScript) version of
> Computer Modern installed?
How would I find out? Fonts are a bit of a mystery to me. I do have
some MS-windows fonts installed, as well as various tools that are
supposed to help manage and register fonts.
$ dpkg -l '*font*' | grep ii
ii dfontmgr 0.11.8-0.1 GUI frontend for Defoma, DEbian FOnt MAnager
ii fontconfig 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library - support
ii fontconfig-config 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library - configu
ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
ii gsfonts-x11 0.19.0.1 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11
ii latex-xft-fonts 0.1-5 Xft-compatible versions of some LaTeX fonts
ii libfont-afm-perl 1.19-1 Font::AFM - Interface to Adobe Font Metrics
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library - runtime
ii libfontconfig1-dev 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library - develop
ii libfontenc-dev 1.0.1-6 X11 font encoding library (development heade
ii libfontenc1 1.0.1-6 X11 font encoding library
ii libxfont-dev 1.0.0-4 X11 font rasterisation library (development
ii libxfont1 1.0.0-4 X11 font rasterisation library
ii mplayer-fonts 3.5-2 Fonts for mplayer
ii psfontmgr 0.11.8-0.1 PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, D
ii tkfont 1.1-12 A different xfontsel for displaying fonts
ii ttf-freefont 20051102-2 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
ii x-ttcidfont-conf 24 Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X
ii x11proto-fonts-dev 2.0.2-3 X11 font extension wire protocol
ii xfonts-100dpi 1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi-transcoded 1.0.0-2 75 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 1064
ii xfonts-base 1.0.0-3 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-base-transcoded 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10
ii xfonts-dosemu 1.2.2-5 VGA font for the DOS Emulator
ii xfonts-encodings 1.0.0-5.1 Encodings for X.Org fonts
ii xfonts-konsole 3.4.3-3 fonts used by the KDE's Konsole
ii xfonts-pex 4.1.0-17 fonts for minimal PEX support in X
ii xfonts-scalable 1.0.0-4 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1.0.0-6 X Window System font utility programs
Here's .xsession-errors from the startup. The failure itself doesn't
seem to have left anything:
LyX: Creating directory /home/ross/.lyx/
LyX: reconfiguring user directory
checking for a LaTeX2e program...
+checking for "pplatex"... no
+checking for "latex2e"... no
+checking for "latex"... yes
checking for the pdflatex program...
+checking for "pdflatex"... yes
checking for a Tgif viewer and editor...
+checking for "tgif"... no
checking for a FIG viewer and editor...
+checking for "xfig"... yes
checking for a Grace viewer and editor...
+checking for "xmgrace"... yes
checking for a FEN viewer and editor...
+checking for "xboard"... yes
checking for a raster image viewer...
+checking for "xv"... no
+checking for "kview"... yes
checking for a raster image editor...
+checking for "gimp"... yes
checking for a text editor...
+checking for "xemacs"... no
+checking for "gvim"... no
+checking for "kedit"... no
+checking for "kwrite"... yes
checking for a LaTeX -> LyX converter...
+checking for "/home/ross/.lyx/../src/tex2lyx/tex2lyx"... no
+checking for "tex2lyx"... yes
checking for a Noweb -> LyX converter...
+checking for "noweb2lyx"... no
checking for a Noweb -> LaTeX converter...
+checking for "noweave"... no
checking for an HTML -> LaTeX converter...
+checking for "html2latex"... no
checking for an MS Word -> LaTeX converter...
+checking for "wvCleanLatex"... yes
checking for a LaTeX -> MS Word converter...
+checking for "htlatex"... yes
checking for Image converter...
+checking for "convert"... yes
checking for an OpenOffice.org -> LaTeX converter...
+checking for "w2l"... no
checking for a LaTeX -> OpenOffice.org converter...
+checking for "oolatex"... no
+checking for "oolatex.sh"... no
checking for a Postscript previewer...
+checking for "gsview32"... no
+checking for "gv"... yes
checking for a PDF previewer...
+checking for "acrobat"... no
+checking for "acrord32"... no
+checking for "gsview32"... no
+checking for "acroread"... yes
checking for a DVI previewer...
+checking for "xdvi"... yes
checking for a HTML previewer...
+checking for "mozilla"... yes
checking for a PS to PDF converter...
+checking for "ps2pdf13"... yes
checking for a DVI to PS converter...
+checking for "dvips"... yes
checking for a DVI to PDF converter...
+checking for "dvipdfm"... yes
checking for dvipng...
+checking for "dvipng"... no
checking for a *roff formatter...
+checking for "groff"... yes
checking for ChkTeX...
+checking for "chktex"... no
checking for a spellchecker...
+checking for "ispell"... yes
checking for Octave...
+checking for "octave"... yes
checking for Maple...
+checking for "maple"... no
checking for a fax program...
+checking for "kdeprintfax"... yes
checking for SGML-tools 1.x (LinuxDoc)...
+checking for "sgml2lyx"... yes
checking for SGML-tools 2.x (DocBook) or db2x scripts...
+checking for "sgmltools"... yes
checking for a spool command...
+checking for "lp"... yes
checking for a LaTeX -> HTML converter...
+checking for "htlatex"... yes
checking LaTeX configuration... auto
+Inspecting your LaTeX configuration.
+checking for LaTeX version... 2003/12/01
+checking for available hyphenation patterns... american, french, german, ngerm
+checking for default encoding (this may take a long time)
+ checking for ec fonts... yes
+ checking for ec support in LaTeX format... yes
+checking for document class IEEEtran [IEEEtran]... no
+checking for document class aa [aa]... no
+checking for document class aapaper [aa]... no
+checking for document class aastex [aastex]... no
+checking for docbook class agu-dtd... yes
+checking for document class agums [aguplus,agums.sty]... no
+checking for document class amsart-plain [amsart]... yes
+checking for document class amsart-seq [amsart]... yes
+checking for document class amsart [amsart]... yes
+checking for document class amsbook [amsbook]... yes
+checking for document class apa [apa,apacite.sty]... no
+checking for document class article [article]... yes
+checking for document class book [book]... yes
+checking for document class broadway [broadway]... yes
+checking for document class chess [article,lyxskak.sty]... yes
+checking for document class cl2emult [cl2emult]... no
+checking for document class cv [cv]... yes
+checking for document class dinbrief [dinbrief]... yes
+checking for docbook class docbook-book... yes
+checking for docbook class docbook-chapter... yes
+checking for docbook class docbook-section... yes
+checking for docbook class docbook... yes
+checking for document class dtk [dtk]... no
+checking for document class egs [egs]... no
+checking for document class elsart [elsart,amssymb.sty]... no
+checking for document class entcs [entcs]... no
+checking for document class extarticle [extarticle]... yes
+checking for document class extbook [extbook]... yes
+checking for document class extletter [extletter]... yes
+checking for document class extreport [extreport]... yes
+checking for document class foils [foils]... no
+checking for document class g-brief-de [g-brief]... yes
+checking for document class g-brief-en [g-brief]... yes
+checking for document class g-brief2 [g-brief2]... yes
+checking for document class heb-article [article]... yes
+checking for document class heb-letter [letter]... yes
+checking for document class hollywood [hollywood]... yes
+checking for document class ijmpd [ws-ijmpd]... no
+checking for document class jgrga [aguplus,jgrga.sty]... no
+checking for document class kluwer [kluwer]... no
+checking for document class latex8 [article,latex8.sty,times.sty]... no
+checking for document class letter [letter]... yes
+checking for linuxdoc class linuxdoc... yes
+checking for document class literate-article [article,noweb.sty]... no
+checking for document class literate-book [book,noweb.sty]... no
+checking for document class literate-report [report,noweb.sty]... no
+checking for document class llncs [llncs]... no
+checking for document class ltugboat [ltugboat]... no
+checking for linuxdoc class manpage... yes
+checking for document class memoir [memoir]... yes
+checking for document class mwart [mwart]... yes
+checking for document class mwbk [mwbk]... yes
+checking for document class mwrep [mwrep]... yes
+checking for document class paper [paper]... no
+checking for document class report [report]... yes
+checking for document class revtex [revtex]... yes
+checking for document class revtex4 [revtex4]... yes
+checking for document class scrartcl [scrartcl]... yes
+checking for document class scrbook [scrbook]... yes
+checking for document class scrlettr [scrlettr]... yes
+checking for document class scrlttr2 [scrlttr2]... yes
+checking for document class scrreprt [scrreprt]... yes
+checking for document class seminar [seminar]... yes
+checking for document class siamltex [siamltex]... no
+checking for document class slides [slides]... yes
+checking for document class spie [spie]... no
+checking for document class svglobal [svjour,svglobal.clo]... no
+checking for document class svjog [svjour,svjog.clo]... no
+checking for document class svprobth [svjour,svprobth.clo]... no
+checking for package algorithm [algorithm]... yes
+checking for package array [array]... yes
+checking for package babel [babel]... yes
+checking for package bibtopic [bibtopic]... yes
+checking for package color [color]... yes
+checking for package dvipost [dvipost]... no
+checking for package fancybox [fancybox]... yes
+checking for package fancyhdr [fancyhdr]... yes
+checking for package floatflt [floatflt]... yes
+checking for package geometry [geometry]... yes
+checking for package jurabib [jurabib]... yes
+checking for package latex8 [latex8]... no
+checking for package longtable [longtable]... yes
+checking for package natbib [natbib]... yes
+checking for package prettyref [prettyref]... no
+checking for package preview [preview]... yes
+checking for package rotating [rotating]... yes
+checking for package setspace [setspace]... yes
+checking for package subfigure [subfigure]... yes
+checking for package varioref [varioref]... yes
+checking for package url [url]... yes
+checking for package graphicx [graphicx]... yes
+checking for graphics driver... default
+checking for package psnfss [times.sty]... yes
+Inspection done.
+Read the file doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx for more information.
creating packages.lst
creating doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx
checking whether TeX allows spaces in file names... yes
creating lyxrc.defaults
checking for a FIG -> EPS/PPM/PNG converter...
+checking for "fig2dev"... yes
checking for a TIFF -> PS converter...
+checking for "tiff2ps"... yes
checking for a Tgif -> EPS/PDF converter...
+checking for "tgif"... no
checking for an EPS -> PDF converter...
+checking for "epstopdf"... yes
checking for a Grace -> Image converter...
+checking for "gracebat"... yes
removing textclass.lst, which is identical to the system global version
removing packages.lst, which is identical to the system global version
LyX: Done!
I do get this additional logging when I exit lyx:
Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 19
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0xe00005
I'm running under KDE 3.5
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