[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#316679: lyx-qt: Spell checking is broken

[John Goerzen]

Package: lyx-qt
Version: 1.3.4-2
Severity: normal

I attemted to spell-check my document, but LyX popped up a box saying:

The spell-checker has failed

Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash


jgoerzen@fritz:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/ispell
total 2272
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    5688 1999-07-20 15:32 american.aff
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      17 2005-06-14 23:52 american.hash -> americanmed+.hash
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1147480 2004-02-16 02:21 americanmed+.hash
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    5688 1999-07-20 15:32 british.aff
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      16 2005-06-14 23:52 british.hash -> britishmed+.hash
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1148120 2004-02-16 02:20 britishmed+.hash
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      36 2005-06-14 23:52 default.aff -> /etc/dictionaries-common/default.aff
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      37 2005-06-14 23:52 default.hash -> /etc/dictionaries-common/default.hash
jgoerzen@fritz:~$ dpkg -l ispell aspell
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  ispell         3.1.20.0-4     International Ispell (an interactive spellin
ii  aspell         0.60.2+2005012 GNU Aspell spell-checker


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.12
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages lyx-qt depends on:
ii  latex- 0.1-5                             Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii  libaik 1.0.1+cvs.2004.03.15+dev-0.12-0.2 an English-language thesaurus (dev
ii  libc6  2.3.2.ds1-22                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc 1:3.4.3-13                        GCC support library
ii  libice 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14                   Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libqt3 3:3.3.4-3                         Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14                   X Window System Session Management
ii  libstd 1:3.3.5-13                        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14                   X Window System protocol client li
ii  lyx-co 1.3.4-2                           High Level Word Processor - common
ii  xlibs  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14                   X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

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