On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 06/07/2014 10:12 PM, Julio Rojas wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I have just tried to install Lyx 2.1 on my Windows 7 PC on which I >> already had Lyx 2.0.6 and TexLive 2013, so I went the update way. During >> configuration, Lyx runs LuaLatex which in turn gets stuck and start >> bloating and eating all the resources. I tried killing the script >> (python.exe). Lyx starts telling me that there were no classes installed. I >> tried reconfigure, but had the same result. >> >> Has somebody had this problem? >> > > For some reason, the lualatex configuratoin check takes a very long time. > I don't know why it would cause such huge problems, but if you want to work > around this: > > It may due to LuaTex's caching of all the system fonts, carried out by (I believe) luaotfload at startup. It may take a long time if you have lots of installed fonts.
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