With lyx 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 10.10 the spell checker cannot be started, running from terminal gives me this output.
gra...@antec-linux:~$ lyx ForkedProcess::kill(5) Error: Spellchecker error ---------------------------------------- The spellchecker could not be started LyX: Failed to start ispell! ** (<unknown>:3299): WARNING **: Failed to send buffer ** (<unknown>:3299): WARNING **: Failed to send buffer Killed 3301 ../../../../src/frontends/qt4/Dialog.cpp(129): Dialog "spellchecker" failed to translate the data string passed to show() This a fresh install of both Ubuntu and Lyx (a couple of weeks old), and the spell checker was working until today Possibly of relevance, after this re-install, Emacs was giving me an error that it couldn't enable flyspell. This apparently needed elisp updated which was done as per instruction to add ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa and update the dist-upgrade. This may be coincidence but since sorting out the spell checking issue with emacs, I seem to have broken the spell checking with Lyx. I have re-installed Lyx, but this hasn't helped. Thanks, Graham
