speechd-up randomly dies on AMD64

speechd-up randomly dies on AMD64

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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I am running the i386 version of Ubuntu Edgy on my new AMD64 system, as
I am using the hard drive from my old dead 32-bit system.  For some
strange reason, speechd-up seems to die at random for no apparent
reason.  This seemed to happen on my 32-bit system as well, but it
happened much less frequently.  It used to happen about once a day, but
it now can happen anywhere from 2 to 3 seconds to 2 or more hours after
starting it.  There seems to be no pattern at all to this occurrence,
but sometimes speechd-up itself dies and sometimes it seems to crash
speech-dispatcher so that restarting speech-dispatcher is the only thing
that fixes it.  I should also note here that although I am experiencing
this problem while running a 32-bit version of the OS, I have been told
that the same problem occurs when running a 64-bit Gentoo.

Has anyone found a workaround for this problem or is there a newer
version of speechd-up that fixes it?

Thanks for any help,
Lorenzo
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Re: speechd-up randomly dies on AMD64

[Hynek Hanke]

Lorenzo Taylor píše v Čt 08. 02. 2007 v 04:19 -0500:
> I am running the i386 version of Ubuntu Edgy on my new AMD64 system, as
> I am using the hard drive from my old dead 32-bit system.  For some
> strange reason, speechd-up seems to die at random for no apparent
> reason.  

Hi Lorenzo,

could you please try the latest CVS version and let me know? There has
been a bugfix which should help. I'm sorry we didn't release the version
yet. I have a lot of work right now.

http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd-up

Thank you,
Hynek Hanke

Re: speechd-up randomly dies on AMD64

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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I got the latest CVS speechd-up as suggested, but I am having nearly the
same problem.  The death of speechd-up occurs slightly less frequently,
but it still only runs for a few minutes at a time.  Most of the time I
can just run sudo speechdup to restart it, but sometimes I have to
restart speech-dispatcher before I can run speechd-up again.  I have to
restart speech-dispatcher about every 3rd or 4th time speechd-up dies..
I have been told that the latest speech-dispatcher fixes some kind of
crash problem.  Is it possible that speech-dispatcher 0.6.1 could be
crashing speechd-up even though it doesn't crash Orca's
speech-dispatcher gnome-speech driver?

Thanks,
Lorenzo
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Re: speechd-up randomly dies on AMD64

[Hynek Hanke]

Lorenzo Taylor píše v Čt 08. 02. 2007 v 22:17 -0500:
> I got the latest CVS speechd-up as suggested, but I am having nearly the
> same problem.  The death of speechd-up occurs slightly less frequently,
> but it still only runs for a few minutes at a time.  Most of the time I
> can just run sudo speechdup to restart it, but sometimes I have to
> restart speech-dispatcher before I can run speechd-up again. 

That's bad.

>   Is it possible that speech-dispatcher 0.6.1 could be
> crashing speechd-up even though it doesn't crash Orca's
> speech-dispatcher gnome-speech driver?

No, Speech Dispatcher cannot be crashing speechd-up. If Speech
Dispatcher crashes, the connection dies and SpeechD-Up complains
in the logfile /var/log/speechd-up.log and quits.

Could you please send me the logfile and preferably also a backtrace
of SpeechD-Up crash? You need to run it in gdb with the -s option given
to speechd-up and you need to do
	thread apply all bt 

Please let me know if you need more instructions.

Thank you,
Hynek Hanke