Spelling crashes on 1.4.0

[Scott Otterson]

Hi, Lyx 1.4.0 looks like a great step forward but, unfortunately, it 
hangs when I click the spellchecker box.  I'm on a Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux ES machine, and since I don't have root write permission, I built 
lyx myself.

Everything works fine except the spellchecker  -- including the thesarus.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Scott