Comment 5 for bug 1430059

​All options are back.

So it has to do with the fact that Vivid upgrades LyX to 2.1.3 from
Utopic's 2.0.6 and configuration files are incompatible?

Thanks a lot!

2015-03-10 19:02 GMT-03:00 Scott Kostyshak <email address hidden>:

> OK so LyX has no trouble finding LaTeX it seems.
>
> Can you try this:
> 1. exit LyX
> 2. back up any folder that starts ~/.lyx
> 3. remove any folder that starts ~/.lyx
> 4. start LyX
> 5. Can you now export either through the buttons or from File > Export ?
>
> note that to copy and remove you can do something like
> mkdir ~/Desktop/lyxBU &&
> cp -r ~/.lyx* ~/Desktop/lyxBU &&
> rm -rf ~/.lyx*
>
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> Title:
> Many options in various menus appear greyed out, inaccessible
>
> Status in lyx package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Options greyed out:
> - File menu: "Close" through "Version control", plus "Export" and "Print"
> - Edit menu: all options
> - View menu: all but "Messages pane", "Toolbars" and "Fullscreen"
> - Insert menu: all options
> - Navigate menu: all options
> - Document menu: all options
> - Tools menu: "Spellchecker" and "Statistics"
>
> Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
> Release: 15.04
>
> lyx:
> Installed: 2.1.3-1
> Candidate: 2.1.3-1
> Version table:
> *** 2.1.3-1 0
> 500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
> Package: lyx 2.1.3-1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-7.7-generic 3.19.0
> Uname: Linux 3.19.0-7-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu2
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Mon Mar 9 19:45:01 2015
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/lyx
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-03 (33 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64
> (20141022.1)
> SourcePackage: lyx
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-03-05 (3 days ago)
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