[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#618687: lyx: LyX crashes immediately on start

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Package: lyx
Version: 2.0.0~rc1-1
Severity: important

Immediately upon start (before any windows open), LyX is crashing with
the messages

snowball:502$ lyx
../../../src/support/lassert.cpp(21): ASSERTION initialised_ VIOLATED IN ../../../src/support/Package.cpp:70
Assertion triggered in void lyx::doAssert(const char*, const char*, long int) by failing check "false" in file ../../../src/support/lassert.cpp:23
Aborted

I'm seeing this both with 2.0.0~beta4-1 and 2.0.0~rc1-1 (I went to rc1
when beta4 showed the problem).  It's a regression from 1.6.7-1 (I've
just now downgraded, and am able to launch).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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  libboost-regex1.42.0    1.42.0-4         regular expression library for C++
ii  libboost-signals1.42.0  1.42.0-4         managed signals and slots library 
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-11        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libenchant1c2a          1.6.0-1          a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.5.2-4        GCC support library
ii  libmythes-1.2-0         2:1.2.1-1        simple thesaurus library
ii  libqtcore4              4:4.6.3-4        Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4               4:4.6.3-4        Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6              4.5.2-4          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lyx-common              2.0.0~rc1-1      Architecture-independent files for
ii  xdg-utils               1.1.0~rc1-2      desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages lyx recommends:
ii  acroread [pdf-viewer]      9.4.2-0.0     Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc
ii  dvipng                     1.13-1        convert DVI files to PNG graphics
ii  elyxer                     1.2.0-1       Standalone LyX to HTML converter
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]        2.30.3-3      Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer
ii  ghostscript                8.71~dfsg2-10 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]            1:3.7.1-2     PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  imagemagick                8:6.6.0.4-3   image manipulation programs
ii  poppler-utils              0.12.4-1.2    PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  preview-latex-style        11.86-2       extraction of elements from LaTeX 
ii  psutils                    1.17-27       A collection of PostScript documen
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended  2009-11       TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ii  texlive-generic-extra      2009-10       TeX Live: Extra generic packages
ii  texlive-latex-extra        2009-10       TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary pack
ii  texlive-latex-recommended  2009-11       TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packag
ii  texlive-science            2009-10       TeX Live: Typesetting for natural 
ii  ttf-lyx                    2.0.0~beta4-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]          3.02-12       Portable Document Format (PDF) rea

Versions of packages lyx suggests:
ii  chktex         1.6.4-1                   Finds typographic errors in LaTeX
ii  dvipost        1.1-4                     Post processor for dvi files suppo
ii  gnuhtml2latex  0.4-1                     A Perl script that converts html f
ii  groff          1.21-4                    GNU troff text-formatting system
pn  latex2rtf      <none>                    (no description available)
pn  librsvg2-bin | <none>                    (no description available)
ii  libtiff-tools  3.9.4-6                   TIFF manipulation and conversion t
ii  linuxdoc-tools 0.9.66                    convert LinuxDoc SGML source into 
ii  menu           2.1.44                    generates programs menu for all me
ii  noweb          2.11b-7                   A WEB-like literate-programming to
ii  rcs            5.7-25                    The GNU Revision Control System
ii  sgmltools-lite 3.0.3.0.cvs.20010909-15.1 convert DocBook SGML source into H
pn  writer2latex   <none>                    (no description available)
ii  wv             1.2.4-2+b1                Programs for accessing Microsoft W

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