Hi Herbert, I deleted the entire .lyx directory and let lyx rebuild it fresh. This didn't fix it.
I also looked in stdclass.inc in /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts but the line you said to add is already there. I tried compiling and reinstalling 1.1.6fix4 just in case I've screwed something else up on my system. 1.1.6fix4 opens docs without crashing. Any more suggestions? Thanks for your help, Nathan > do you have a layout-dir with the different files in your > lyx-homedir ~/.lyx/layouts? > > if so and they are not speciell one, then delete them all. > > Otherwise insert in the file stdclass.inc a line > DefaultStyle Standard > > Herbert > > >