Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > An external process can fail on any system, either waiting for a user > input or because of an infinite loop. That can be Latex or any other > tool (htlatex comes to mind). In case of failure there is no other > choice but to go to the console where lyx was started.
I use my OS's (i.e. KDE's) process manager in such cases, which gives nice information about the status and the possibility to act accordingly. Jürgen