On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:31:27PM -0500, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> Would someone please DTRT about this, and ack?
> 
> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> From: Chris Kuklewicz <chris at mightyreason.com>
> 
> /usr/local/bin/aspell -v
> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.2)
> 
> The error occurs when Emacs tries to start "ispell".  The *Messages*
> buffer shows this when I call "ispell-buffer"
> 
> Loading ispell...done
> Starting new Ispell process...
> Spell checking *scratch* using aspell with default dictionary...
> Spell-checking using aspell with default dictionary done
> ispell-get-line: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

This seems the same problem described by Stefan Monnier in the "Problems
with ispell/flyspell" thread when no english aspell dict is available,

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-12/msg01343.html

where he proposed making sure a sane default is available by using first
entry of ispell-dictionary-alist-1 when nothing else works.

Attached patch seems to take care of that,

-- 
Agustin