On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Hartmut S. Leipner wrote:
> I figured out that the behavior of lyx has to do with some huge eps figures I
> included. Lyx dissappeared from the screen without any error message but it
> is still running a while as indicated in the list of active processes.
> However I noticed there also at least two sleeping gs processes when lyx
> died. For example:
>
> 6777 pts/1 S 0:00 gs -sDEVICE=x11 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dSAFER
> -r43.0986x42.7317 -g170x73 /tmp/lyx_tmpdir166817
> 16778 pts/1 S 0:01 gs -sDEVICE=x11 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dSAFER
> -r43.0986x42.8571 -g170x75 /tmp/lyx_tmpdir166817
> 16785 pts/1 S 0:00 gs -sDEVICE=x11 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dSAFER
> -r54.1593x54 -g170x132 /tmp/lyx_tmpdir166817Z8E5
>
> When I removed the big eps files from the document everything is working OK.
> I remember there was a thread on ghostscript issues a couple of week ago:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg12222.html
> As far as I remember there has been no solution for that.
>
> hsl
Hi, this bug won't cause crashes. The "workaround" is to not use any
dialogs or widgets until all the figures have finished loading. Annoying I
know.
I am working on trying to fix this right now.
john
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