opensuse 10.2, kde 3.5, the file is big file (300.000 words) in koma script style Marcelo
There are some known problems with back conversion, but your problem seems to be with how lyx2lyx is called. Are you sure the error message is python -tt "usr/local/share/lyx-1.5.0b3/lyx2lyx/l" not python -tt "/usr/local/share/lyx-1.5.0b3/lyx2lyx" ? Bo