[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard
From:       Bruce Pourciau <bruce.h.pourciau () lawrence ! edu>
Date:       2009-10-29 15:23:18
Message-ID: 3D4090A4-F0EA-4206-9990-447FECAE871F () lawrence ! edu
[Download RAW message or body]


On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, rgheck wrote:

> On 10/29/2009 09:03 AM, James C. Sutherland wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Luca Carlon wrote:
>>
>>> Jan David Hauck <jdhauck@...> writes:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Referring to the recent discussion on LyX having problems on Snow
>>>> Leopard, I
>>>> can state, that the problem solved itself somehow. In fact LyX  
>>>> crashed
>>>> "really" one time (I think when I accidentally wanted to paste a
>>>> footnote
>>>> inside a footnote or something) but after that no more problems  
>>>> even
>>>> with
>>>> autosave enabled (and on 3 minutes). I made System Update recently
>>>> maybe
>>>> that fixed it. Anybody else resolved it?
>>>
>>> I tried to turn off autosave but it seems there is a bug in turning
>>> it off
>>> (reported). Then I tried to set to 100 minutes the autosave  
>>> interval,
>>> so that I
>>> could work without it somehow (seems to me there is a bug there too,
>>> I had to
>>> restart some times before 100 minutes were actually placed between
>>> autosavings).
>>> I still get the error message some times, but very rarely. Anyay, I
>>> suppose the
>>> bug is still there.
>>>
>>
>> The bug is still there.  As far as I know there is not yet a solid  
>> fix
>> for this.  Bennet had been working on something, but I don't know if
>> he has finalized a fix yet...
>>
> A fix has been committed: disabling fork() on OSX. We don't know why  
> it
> suddenly stopped working, but it is a limitation of OSX itself.
>
> rh
>

What about earlier versions, 1.6.3 for example, and snow leopard?

Bruce
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]