Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Gmane User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Enrico Forestieri wrote: >>>> Gmane User schrieb: >>>> >>>>> I've installed LaTex and Lyx via the Cygwin installation, >>>> > However, this always seems to crash Lyx. >>> I am using a cygwin version of LyX and have no problems. When you say that >>> you are trying to view the pdf, do you mean that you are trying to export >>> to pdf or are you using View->PDF? >> Both. > > Please, if your shell is tcsh, use this command to start lyx: > > lyx -dbg latex >& output.log > > Instead, if your shell is bash, launch lyx this way: > > lyx -dbg latex > output.log 2>&1 > > After LyX started, load Intro.lyx through Help->Introduction and then select > "View->PDF (pdflatex)". If it finishes and you can use the menu, quit LyX. > Otherwise, if something seems to be stalled, kill LyX by issuing a Control-C > in the window from where you started it. > > Thereafter, send to the list as an attachment the file output.log. > Hopefully we will be able to deduce something from its contents.
I use bash. Well, I didn't have a chance to repeat the attempt on the original computer on which the problems was observed. However, I tried it on another computer, with the same apparent problem (Lyx goes away, consumes much CPU, and "never" comes back). I never did the debug step because View->pdflatex *does* come back after half an hour (not sure how much after, but probably no more than an hour after it started). The long time for the conversion might be a function of the file. It was the Help->Tutorial file that caused such a long conversion. If I open a blank new Lyx file and type a few words, the conversion takes trivial amount of time. The View->Update also works. I tried the View->Update on the long-converting Tutorial file. It still takes a long time. How long...not sure, it's still running. The temporary files seem to be located in /tmp/lyx_tmpdir1724fSfEOO/lyx_tmpbufXX, where XX is 0, 1, 2, ... . If the PDF file is still opened in acrobat viewer, the update cannot complete because the file is locked (this is in a windows environment, even though cygwin makes it look like unix). Thanks for your suggestions in troubleshooting.
