[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#506183: lyx: Viewers broken for some documents

[Celejar]

Package: lyx
Version: 1.6.0-1
Severity: normal

I've been trying to read the various help files included with lyx via the various viewers lyx provides.  Some (Tutorial, Math, LyX Functions) work fine, but others don't appear, with a completely empty error box popping up instead.  The problem files don't work with any of view as dvi, pdf or ps.  Further investigation reveals that the .dvi files are always created in /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.xxxxxx/lyx_tmpbufn/filenam.dvi, but on the files that don't appear, it seems that lyx isn't invoking the converters / viewers to display them.  I notice that the files that work have only one tmpbufn directory created for them, while those that don't have multiple (tmpbuf0, tmpbuf1, etc), so I'm guessing that the converter / displayer code somehow gets confused by the multiple buffers and fails to find the fresh dvi.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-lizzie
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lyx depends on:
ii  libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a  1.2.1+dev-0.12-6  an English-language thesaurus (dev
ii  libaspell15            0.60.6-1          GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libboost-regex1.34.1   1.34.1-14         regular expression library for C++
ii  libboost-signals1.34.1 1.34.1-14         managed signals and slots library 
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1         GCC support library
ii  libqtcore4             4.4.3-1           Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4              4.4.3-1           Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  lyx-common             1.6.0-1           Architecture-independent files for
ii  mime-support           3.44-1            MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  xdg-utils              1.0.2-6           desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages lyx recommends:
ii  dvipng               1.11-1              convert DVI files to PNG graphics
ii  evince [postscript-v 2.22.2-4            Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  ghostscript [postscr 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1     The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  imagemagick          7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2.1 image manipulation programs
ii  latex-xft-fonts      0.1-8               Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii  preview-latex-style  11.83-7.2           extraction of elements from LaTeX 
ii  psutils              1.17-26             A collection of PostScript documen
ii  texlive-fonts-recomm 2007.dfsg.1-4       TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ii  texlive-latex-recomm 2007.dfsg.1-4       TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packag
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-vie 3.02-1.4            Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages lyx suggests:
pn  chktex                     <none>        (no description available)
ii  cups-bsd [lpr]             1.3.8-1lenny2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-client                1.3.8-1lenny2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  dillo [www-browser]        0.8.6-3       Small and fast web browser
pn  dvipost                    <none>        (no description available)
ii  epiphany-gecko [www-browse 2.22.3-8      Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck
pn  gnuhtml2latex              <none>        (no description available)
pn  groff                      <none>        (no description available)
ii  iceweasel [www-browser]    3.0.3-3       lightweight web browser based on M
pn  latex2rtf                  <none>        (no description available)
pn  libtiff-tools              <none>        (no description available)
ii  links2 [www-browser]       2.2-1         Web browser running in both graphi
pn  linuxdoc-tools             <none>        (no description available)
ii  menu                       2.1.41        generates programs menu for all me
pn  noweb                      <none>        (no description available)
pn  rcs                        <none>        (no description available)
pn  sgmltools-lite             <none>        (no description available)
ii  tex4ht                     20080701-2    LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)
ii  texlive-latex-extra        2007.dfsg.9-1 TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary pack
ii  tth                        3.80-2        TeX/LaTeX to HTML converter
ii  w3m [www-browser]          0.5.2-2+b1    WWW browsable pager with excellent
pn  writer2latex               <none>        (no description available)
pn  wv                         <none>        (no description available)

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