I'm facing the same problem with a beamer presentation created with LyX 2.0 (\lyxformat 413). Now, I have version 2.1.1 but I get the same crash message.
On Tuesday 17 June 2014 09:48:02 Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/17/2014 07:56 AM, Fabio Fiorelli wrote: > > Hello everyone > > I have several beamer files that I generated from lyx 2.0.6 . We had > > to change from XP to something else, and we went for CentOS. I managed > > to install and run 2.1, after a brief period using 1.6 (the version > > present in the repositories). It seems to run smoothly. However when I > > try to open the old beamer files I get the following message > > > > > > /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.qDvxspUv9932/Buffer_convertLyXFormatXXXXXX.lyx.zKzSulrV993 > > ended unexpectedly, which means that it is probably corrupted > > > > I've looked around, and I think this might be an existing > > incompatibility, but I did not find any lyx 2.1-specific answer. > > Is there a solution to this? > > There are some known issues with Beamer conversion, which we hope are > solved for 2.1.1. If you want, you can download the lyx2lyx files from > git.lyx.org and replace the existing ones, or just compile the 2.1.x > branch for yourself. Failing that, 2.1.1 should be out in about two weeks. > > Richard > -- Rudi Gaelzer Institute of Physics Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul BRAZIL Registered linux user # 153741