Hi,

zong chen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed Mandrake 10.0, which comes with LyX 1.3.3. I haven't
> used LyX before, so I thought I would try it out. To this end I imported
> an old portable LaTex document and tried to generate a PDF-file (using
> pdflatex). However, LyX just hangs. I thought it was perhaps generating
> fonts, so I left it for over an hour, but when it still hadn't finished I
> calle dit a hang. I then tried a one line document, which did finish, but
> it took a long time (on a 1.1 GHz PC). Any suggestions?

Run it from the command line and you will have more insight about what lyx
is doing. You can also run 'top' when lyx 'hangs' and watch out for active
processes (font generation, latex etc).

Alfredo


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