I did notice that under converters, there was no converter for Lyx to Dvi, in fact anything to Dvi...which might be the source of the problem though I'm baffled as to how it disappeared if indeed there ought to be one
"Srinivas Nedunuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hello, this sounds really odd, but a variety of View options that were > previously available (in particular DVI) in Lyx are no longer available. The > only one that is available is pdflatex (and even that produces an error > message). The only change I made since those options used to be available > was that I included some graphics files in my Lyx document. I ran > reconfigure but that didn't help any. Does this call for a reinstall of Lyx > or am I missing something obvious? > > I am running Lyx on Windows > > thanks! > > PS a new error message I have not seen before that appears in the console is > "Could not fork: Exec format error", but I don't know if its related to this > problem > > > >