Re: LyX 2.5.0 RC1 frequent crashes

Stephan Witt via lyx-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.lyx.general
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Am 04.11.2025 um 18:21 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]>:
> 
>> On 11/3/25 6:54 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>> On 11/3/25 12:43 PM, Gerhard Gsänger via lyx-users wrote:
>>>> I experience crashes every second day. Unfortunately I’m unable to describe how to duplicate the problem. Mac M2 OS Tahoe what can I do to provide better information. 
>>> If you immediately write down what you were doing when the crash occurred, that would help quite a lot. If you can run LyX from a terminal, you may get some kind of backtrace, which could also help. Are you running any background tools, like clipboard managers or anything like that? 
>> 
>> From Gerhard:
>> 
>> I have the impression that the crash occurs when I scrolled several lines up or down. However. I’m not sure about that.
>> 
>> I use Yoink in the background. I think this is what you called a clipboard manager, isn’t it.
> I am not on Mac, so I do not know.
>> For the troubleshooting, I will leave it tuned off for a while.
>> 
>> Where can I find instructions for running LyX from a terminal and how to access the backtrace. I will be happy to try it.
> Anyone on OSX who can explain how to do this?

Hi Gerhard,

on macOS you may start the application Console (or Konsole) and there a section with crash reports (or Absturzberichte) at the left of the window. Look for the crash reports of LyX - you should find them there and choose one to share it with mail.

BR Stephan
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