Emacs: flyspell-mode stopped working after update to Maverick

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

Binary package hint: emacs23

After updating to Ubuntu 10.10, enabling flyspell-mode in emacs gives me the following error:

Enabling Flyspell mode gave an error

This is described as a bug in Fedora (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443549) since two year ago and with reapperances in Fedora 10 and 11, and there it is suggested to install aspell and its dictiionaries, as well as hunspell. I have all of those installed (had them already) and the problem persists.

According to the discussion in the Fedora bug it seems a problem related to the default spelling procedure in the operating system, which I don't know if it has changed from Lucid to Maverick.

Ways to reproduce:

1) Open emacs
2) Esc-x flyspell-mode

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: emacs 23.1+1-4ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 11 18:05:28 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: emacs23

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