From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from toccata.ens-lyon.org (toccata.ens-lyon.org [140.77.166.68]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C29C1A370 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:46:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by toccata.ens-lyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7A8840AC for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:46:25 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at toccata.ens-lyon.org Received: from toccata.ens-lyon.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (toccata.ens-lyon.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Cxof-3ze+py2 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:46:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from const.ipv6 (unknown [218.1.42.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by toccata.ens-lyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D8741840AB for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:46:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from samy by const.ipv6 with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PQMDj-0001AD-Qv for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:46:19 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:46:19 +0800 From: Samuel Thibault To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: 12/5/2010 build espeakup-amd64.iso results Message-ID: <20101208154619.GU5184@const> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:46:28 -0000 Hello, Jude DaShiell, le Tue 07 Dec 2010 01:19:45 -0500, a écrit : > When the system rebooted, I > got prompted to log in so logged in as the user account and everything > went silent. I guess the speech engine was festival? There is an issue with it: the festival instance started for gdm doesn't get killed by bonobo. The gnome maintainers have demoted the dependency to just install espeak by default, this should be available within a couple of weeks, in any case for squeeze. As a workaround, just purge the festival package. > Attempting to log in as root invariably resulted in > authentication failure. That is the expected behavior at the gdm login prompt. > The desktop installation also threw > lots of exceptions spoken by the litetalk speech synthesizer on the way to > a boot up. Just to make sure: how much memory do you have? You should report the text of these exception, else we'd need to use divination to be able to fix them. Samuel