Autoloading failed to define function ispell-region

[Ulrich Scholz]

Dear all,

after starting my Emacs 22 with --no-site-file ispell fails with the
following error:

  Autoloading failed to define function ispell-region

The same error occurs when starting Emacs without the --no-site-file
option.

ispell itself seems to be loaded:

  Loading ispell...
  Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el
(source)...done
  Loading ispell...done
  Autoloading failed to define function ispell-region

Ispell also works on the command line.

What to do?

Thanks, Ulrich

This is GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll
bars)
 of 2007-12-15 on noname, modified by Debian