Hi, LyX crashed while I was playing with the Math Panel. Now it only sees two available textclasses in layout/document/class. Both are SGML and I was using the default article class . I purged and reinstalled LyX, but there was no change. Here's the error log from trying to generate a dvi file:
freefall ~ $ lyx firstlyx.lyx LyX: Unknown textclass `article' [around line 3 of file ~/#firstlyx.lyx#] Processing file firstlyx.sgml /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:20:9:E: document type does not allow element "ABSTRACT" here This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1 Babel <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n ohyphenation, loaded. (/tmp/sgmltmp.firstlyx14979.dir/firstlyx.tex ! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found. Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: cls) Enter file name: ! Emergency stop. <read *> l.2 \usepackage {linuxdoc-sgml}^^M No pages of output. Transcript written on firstlyx.log. file:firstlyx.dvi: No such file or directory The article.cls file does exist: freefall ~ $ ll `locate article.cls` -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19639 Mar 23 1999 /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Should I try to purge/reinstall the tetex packages or does anyone have a better idea? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]