Pavel and Steve, thanks for your helpful comments. >maybe. but there are striking similarities - lyx input frozen, no cpu load, bt >points somewhere >in between qt<->xorg, libxcb used; (in this we enter there through >QInputContext::reset()).
It's true that there are many similarities. There are no messages to the console though, and when interrupting with gdb lyx is always in a kernel call. > does this happen with all your files? It does, but they are all of the same type (not too much text, a lot of equations, a lot of cross-references and some figures). In the meantime, I have filed a bugreport (bug 5835), which includes a file and intructions that will provoke a guaranteed crash. These aren't the only ones, however, the lockup also occurs in other circumstances. > of course you restarted X after downgrade, just for sure :) I did :) And since the problem was still there I rebooted just to be sure. @ Steve: There's a lot of sense in what you say, and since I like lyx I will invest time to try to find out which package is the cause. But not now. I only have three more weeks to finish my thesis, and since I'm behind shedule I need every hour I have. As a temporary solution, I've done a full reinstall of fedora core 10, without any updates. This fixes the problem (for now). Kind regards, Michael
