Re: Lyx 2.5.0 crash on mac book pro arm cpu

Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:29:49 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.lyx.general
Message-ID	<abnHXiFy5dQwYbvC@jimmy>

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 10:05:26PM +0100, Anders Ekberg wrote:
> 17 mars 2026 kl. 16:22 skrev Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users <[email protected]>:
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 10:39:21AM +0100, Anders Ekberg via lyx-users wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> 17 mars 2026 kl. 10:22 skrev Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users <[email protected]>:
> > 
> >>> Thank you Anders! If I figure out how to change the menu entry locally
> >>> for you (I think we just need to put a file in your user directory),
> >>> would you be open to testing it? Basically, when you go to quit by the
> >>> menu, instead of running the usual command, it would run the workaround
> >>> command that you tried.
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Scott
> >> 
> >> Of course, just let me know and I will try it.
> >> /Anders
> > 
> > I don't know what customizations we do on macOS. In particular, I don't
> > know if the menu entries are the same. But let's give it a try.
> > 
> > First, exit LyX.
> > 
> > Then, locate your user directory. Inside that directory, if there is not
> > a directory called "ui" then create one. If there is a directory called
> > ui and it is not empty, let me know what else is in there (it might
> > cause problems).
> > 
> > Then, put the attached file inside that user ui directory. The only
> > thing I changed was the File > Exit entry.
> > 
> > Now start LyX and open a document and go to File > Exit and see if it
> > works now.
> > 
> > Thanks for testing!
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> Hmm, I think you want the ui directory inside the App Content, see attached.
> Or am I mistaken

My guess is that the location you found is the system wide LyX
installation directory. If you feel like changing it there, that should
do the trick also. First backup the original files though so it's easy
to restore them if anything is amiss.

Scott

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