On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Matthias Hunstig <matthias.huns...@uni-paderborn.de> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > today, I installed LyX 2.0.1 using Uwe's installer > (http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=18767) > over my somewhat broken 2.0 installation > (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70495/focus=70618, main > cause seems to be a problem with network drives and/or limited rights users > in WinXP) in the hope that it might fix something. > > Unfortunately, things got worse instead. Pdflatex now runs infinitely long > (not proven, but at least very long, i. e. over one hour for a one page > document) in the background. Tex files are created in the temporary folder, > but no pdf is created. Any idea why this might be and how it could be solved? > > To be honest, I am quite frustrated with LyX now. I love it when it works, > but in the last weeks I spent more time fixing problems than actually writing > in LyX. I just stumpled across Portable Lyx 2.0 > (http://portable-lyx.impossible-exil.info/). Maybe this is a solution for me > and other people struggeling with installation problems. > Or you could try Cygwin (on Windows), or installing a Linux distro such as Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine such as VMWare. This worked pretty fine for me when I needed to use Windows, and sometimes it is less of a hassle than getting an open-source thingy working on Windows. If you install in a VMWare you need only very little knowledge about Linux.
I cannot help with your actual problem. Sorry Liviu > Regards > > Matthias > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
