Slackware and IBMTTS: Progress, sort of

Slackware and IBMTTS: Progress, sort of

[Zachary Kline]

Hi,
    I appear to have found a bug, or at least an incompatibility, in 
Slackware, specifically its version of losetup and related tools, which is 
causing me a great deal of problems.
    The voxin-installer.sh cannot mount the encrypted filesystem because 
Ubuntu and Debian have, apparently, different ways of dealing with the 
password.  By default it seems that Ubuntu and Debian hash the password, and 
Slackware's version of losetup doesn't know about this--is it an earlier 
version?  Anyhow, when I try mounting on it, I get an error about unknown 
filesystem type: naturally, since the password I'm given which is entirely 
correct is being given raw to the encryption engine, unhashed.
    I'm not quite sure what to do about this.  According to
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/encrypted-filesystem-wont-mount-because-of-different-version-of-losetup-616885/
there is a -n option to the Ubuntu/Debian version of Losetup which will 
bypass the hash.  I don't have that version, however, and I don't have any 
version of Ubuntu or Debian handy at the moment.  Mildly annoying.
    Any advice from anybody here as far as that goes?  I'd really appreciate 
it.  Gils?
Thanks much,
Zack.

Re: Slackware and IBMTTS: Progress, sort of

[Christopher Moore]

I'm running ubuntu, and the following appears at the bottom of the 
losetup man page

The  losetup command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is avail-
able from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
I also saw something about debian hashing the password.  Maybe you could 
try hashing it before running the voxin-installer script and passing the 
hashed version.
You may also need to hack the script because it seems to look for 
packages on your system using 'dpkg -l' which you don't have.
If you could get that lang file mounted, you should be in business.

Does slackware have a hash command?

Maybe you could get one of us to send you a tarball of the 
/opt/IBM/ibmtts tree.  You'll also need the old stdc++ library and 
perhaps the module to access ibmtts from speech-dispatcher.

Chris

Re: Slackware and IBMTTS: Progress, sort of

[Zachary Kline]

Hi,
    Slackware doesn't have the equivalent to the hash Ubuntu and Debian do, 
as far as I'm aware.  I've done some searching, and can't get things to run 
smoothly.
    The actual .deb packages seem to be mostly builds of Gnome Speech, an 
Emacspeak server, that sort of thing.  I believe those aren't required to 
get IBMTTS itself working.  There is already a speech-dispatcher module, and 
I'm sure with some work I could get Emacspeak and friends to do the right 
thing if I felt the inclination.
    For now, though, getting that lang mounted is the crux of the trouble: I 
can't seem to.  I'm almost tempted to do a whole build of util-linux-ng 
under something like /usr/local or my private bin directory, if that would 
solve things.  I'm not sure it would though.  I guess there's nothing to be 
done except to try...
    Sending me a tarball of /opt/ibmtts?  I'm not sure that'd work, 
but...Maybe.
Thanks for your help.  I'll keep experimenting and let you know what comes 
of it.
All the best,
Zack.