Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Mea maxima culpa. > I had a corrupt articleX.layout in ~/.lyx-cvs/layouts. I was not aware of > that. Your patch lead me to that direction.
OTOH LyX should perhaps bail out earlier when a file is corrupted, and not after minutes of trying to convert the file. How about enhancing your patch, so that it returns a proper error message? Jürgen