Just writing to confirm Håvard H. Garnes' workaround:
>This is because of new faulty qt4.4 from hardy backports. Use synaptic, remove all qt, libqt, libqtcore and everything else qt (lyx, skype and
>stellarium will follow). Then remove hardy-backports from the sources and resync. Then install libqt4-core and libqt4-gui at version 4.3. Then
>lyx and everythong else. Now everything should be fine.
I have now opened and closed several documents, and LyX appears stable. The ~/.config/Trolltech.conf that lyx creates under QT 4.3 looks as follows (I have no idea whether this is useful, but here goes):
Just writing to confirm Håvard H. Garnes' workaround:
>This is because of new faulty qt4.4 from hardy backports. Use synaptic, remove all qt, libqt, libqtcore and everything else qt (lyx, skype and
>stellarium will follow). Then remove hardy-backports from the sources and resync. Then install libqt4-core and libqt4-gui at version 4.3. Then
>lyx and everythong else. Now everything should be fine.
I have now opened and closed several documents, and LyX appears stable. The ~/.config/ Trolltech. conf that lyx creates under QT 4.3 looks as follows (I have no idea whether this is useful, but here goes):
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