Thanks to all who answered. The problem was that I have a cron job that continuously update my packages including LyX in the background. Once I hit reconfigure, everything was okay.
-- myriam > > You shouldn't here, either. Assuming that you have a document loaded, > File -> Export should be populated automatically with all formats for > which LyX has a conversion path. Are you saying that it's not? If > not, can you View -> DVI or View -> PDF (pdflatex)? (If the answer is > not to that as well, either the configuration script burped or > something's up with your LaTeX distribution. Or neither of the above.) > > /Paul