Some more experimentation. I seem to get this error with any .eps file created by xfig, where or not it is named name.xfig.eps or just name.eps. The figures in using though were generated some time ago, so xfig is probably several versions better.
Using eps files from xmgrace, I get good results. As before, either .eps file runs through latex. I have also noticed that I cannot get previews of .ps files, in this particular instance ones generated in xmgrace. None of this is a major problem; with old versions of lyx, I usually left off the .eps extention anyway, so that I could produce a .ps of .pdf file, so I'm use to not having the previews. I also normally don't use .ps files, either, so again, not a major problem. lyx -version gives me: rpinna@rod:~/docs/thesis-test-120p4$ lyx-120cvs -version LyX 1.2.0cvs of Sun, Apr 7, 2002 Built on Apr 8 2002, 07:08:06 Configuration Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: warnings assertions included-libsigc C Compiler: gcc C Compiler flags: -g -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (2.95.2) C++ Compiler flags: -g -O -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -W -Wall Linker flags: Frontend: xforms libXpm version: 4.11 libforms version: 0.89.0 LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx-120cvs _________________________________________________________________________ rpinna |"Zoeggeler denies Hackl four straight luge golds" @civil.uwa| .edu.au | ABC news headline, 2002