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

[Celejar]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:27:05 +0100
"Sven Hoexter" <sven at timegate.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 04:13:01PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I already had texlive-latex-extra, and I added texlive-math-extra, and
> > it (the UserGuide) still doesn't work.  I mention again, in case I was
> > insufficiently clear earlier, that a .dvi is created under /tmp, and I
> > am able to view it manually, although I haven't checked it in depth to
> > see how correct it is, but for some reason lyx doesn't pass it to a
> > viewer, and instead pops up an empty error box.  The output of debug
> > ends with the creation of the dvi:
> 
> > ../../src/LaTeX.cpp(581): Log line: Output written on UserGuide.dvi (141 pages, 616460 bytes).
> > ../../src/LaTeX.cpp(722): Log line: 
> 
> Looks good. Have you tried to reconfigure and restart LyX?
> (Through the menu Tool->Reconfigure or by running /usr/share/lyx/configure.py)

Done, and restarted lyx; the problem remains.  Still an empty error box,
and no viewer. 

> The empty error box shouldn't happen (that's a bug we've have to forward)
> and I can confirm that in case of missing texlive packages. But it should
> go away when everything is fine and when you get a .dvi file generated
> everything should be fine in theory. :)

As the saying goes, he difference between theory and practice is that
in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice ...

> Sven

Celejar
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