On May 14, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Robert Betz wrote: > Tried uninstalling Lyx 2.0.0 and reinstalled Lyx 1.6.10 and also 1.6.9. All > doing the same thing (pdftex not closing and using 100% CPU), so it may be my > system. Doing on two though. The parent process for pdftex is Python, whose > parent in turn is Lyx. When Lyx closes down, Python closes but pdftex is not > closing. Maybe there is some problem with my installation of Python. It > appears to be using Python 2.6 > Bob, is this happening all the time or just for a specific file? If the latter, could you post a small example file?
If it happens for any file, then go back to LyX, create a new file (e.g, "newfile.tex") with just one line of text, and export it as a LaTeX (pdflatex) file. Then try to pdflatex that exported file from the _terminal_ with "pdflatex newfile". If that doesn't work, it's a problem with your TeX installation. You could then send the tex file and the latex log. You could also try paring the file down by deleting any "\usepackage" commands in it, until the error goes away. Maybe you have some package or font installed that causes this crash. This could be hard to find if you have local installations that differ from the standard distribution. Jens
