On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Emil Pavlov <emil.p.pav...@gmail.com>wrote:
> На 29.04.2013 23:43, curtis osterhoudt написа:
>
> I ran into this problem just this weekend (using the 2.1.0 dev version
> of LyX on a debian-based system). I happen to have figured out what I did
> wrong, though it didn't have anything to do with forward/reverse searches;
> I thought the condition was interesting: I put some ERT into my document to
> change some enumeration settings (explicitly, the following command to
> change numbering to a lowercase letter surrounded by parentheses:
> \renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\alph{enumi})}). Later on, though, in playing
> with that command, I changed it to the following:
> \renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\theenumi)}. This, I think, is a sort of
> circular definition, and pdflatex chokes on it, and LyX appears to be
> frozen (I think it's waiting for pdflatex to finish its compilation).
>
> If you haven't started LyX from the command line (so that you can
> simply ctrl-c it), then you can use the following to kill the process:
>
> >From a command window, run "top" or "htop", and find the process
> (likely gs or pdflatex) which is eating up resources and kill it that way.
> OR
> run the command "ps -ef | grep pdflatex" (or whatever process you suspect
> of hanging), which will return the process number of the program running.
> Then you can run "kill <process number>" (or, for extreme maliciousness,
> "kill -9 <process number>") to make LyX useable again.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Emil Pavlov <emil.p.pav...@gmail.com> <emil.p.pav...@gmail.com>
> *To:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> *Sent:* Monday, April 29, 2013 1:15 PM
> *Subject:* Compilation problem
>
> I have a large lyx document (several child documents, together around 60
> pages) and sometimes I have problems compiling the pdf. I even cannot
> close lyx, because it says it is still compiling.
> 1. How can I interrupt the compilation?
> 2. How can I fix this?
>
> I have Lyx 2.0.5.1 on Linux mint 13. The problem usually occurs when I
> enable forward/reverse search (I really need this feature).
>
> Best regards,
> Emil
>
>
>
> OK, this happened again. But I cannot find any process called
> pdflatex. This time forward/reverse search was off.
>
You may not be using pdflatex (there are other backends that produce pdf:
XeLatex. :LuaTeX, Latex with ps2pdf, and so on). When it hangs, try opening
up a terminal and searching for a process containing the "tex" string in
its name. For example with this command: ps aux | grep tex
Alternatively, you may want to double-check which command you are using to
produce the pdf file from the View menu (you should see it in parentheses
next to the various "View pdf" items.
It may also be the case that your compilation hangs not on latex but while
processing references (in which case bibtex or biber would be to blame), or
while indexing (texindy, makeindex, xindy).
Stefano
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