I have the same problem, and Takashi Soma told me that a solution would be downgrading to gs 4.03. I did not try it yet, however.
In any case, I can get the "lyx -version" info at home and add it to the discussion to find out why loading images fails... joao > R> Hi, > > R> I am using Lyx 1.2.1 in Sun OS 5.6. When a document is opened, I > R> cannot see the figures; instead it says "Error scaling etc" inside > R> the figure box. Also, I get the following error message in the > R> command prompt: > > R> Error creating pixmap from xpm_image 'XpmColorFailed' > > > R> I could see the figures under Lyx 1.1.6 and this happened after > R> installing 1.2.1. > > R> Could somebody help. > > What does 'lyx -version' say? (what I want to know is your version of > xforms, and whethe rthe xforms image loader is in use) > > JMarc
