Dear Sir/Madam, I've been using LYX for more than a year, this is the first time I ran into this problem. After updating to the latest LYX version, it kept showing this error "! Package babel Error: You haven't specified a language option." (I copied the whole message and attached it below) If I go to Miktex package manager, it refuse to let me install any package. Miktex package manager reports another error, "Windows API error 5: Access is denied." It never happened before...It seems to be a stupid question, but I cannot work with my team members on the repository without LYX...really need some help.
Thanks a lot! Best, Yan This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (MiKTeX 2.9) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2014.2.28) 8 SEP 2014 07:40 entering extended mode **splash.tex (C:\Users\U1246772\AppData\Local\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.AWRLAWsa8400\lyx_tmpbuf0\splas h.tex LaTeX2e <2011/06/27> Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga lician, german, german-x-2013-05-26, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, latin, latvian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerman, n german-x-2013-05-26, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese, roman ian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swissgerm an, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, usengl ishmax, welsh, loaded. 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