Debian Stretch and speakup Aren't Playing Nicely.

Debian Stretch and speakup Aren't Playing Nicely.

[Martin McCormick]

After upgrading 2 Debian systems to stretch, speakup has died on
both systems.  The systems are still very much alive and accept
remote logins via ssh.

	Sometimes, I am the last person to get wise to big
changes and something appears to have changed in the way that
services are started under stretch.

	This is what prints out on both systems after apt-get
upgrade regarding speakup.  Can I fix this and how do I do it and
create the least amount of damage as both systems seem to
otherwise be okay.

After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up espeakup (1:0.80-5+deb9u2) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling ba
ck to defaults
Failed to start espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service is not loaded properly:
Invalid argument.
See system logs and 'systemctl status espeakup.service' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
Ï espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
   Loaded: error (Reason: Invalid argument)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:espeakup(8)

Dec 15 14:09:18 wb5agz systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12&CE}'
Dec 15 14:09:18 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks both Exe&ing.
Dec 15 14:09:19 wb5agz systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12&CE}'
Dec 15 14:09:19 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks both Exe&ing.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 espeakup

	
	I had built both systems from a stretch install iso image
and they both talked through the installation but the problems
appeared to start after a few upgrades as in

apt-get update;aptget -upgrade


Thanks for any and all constructive ideas.

Martin McCormick

Re: Debian Stretch and speakup Aren't Playing Nicely.

[John Covici]

You need to check that systemd unit to see what is wrong.  Could use
speakup through speech dispatcher instead?

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:41:03 -0500,
Martin McCormick wrote:
> 
> After upgrading 2 Debian systems to stretch, speakup has died on
> both systems.  The systems are still very much alive and accept
> remote logins via ssh.
> 
> 	Sometimes, I am the last person to get wise to big
> changes and something appears to have changed in the way that
> services are started under stretch.
> 
> 	This is what prints out on both systems after apt-get
> upgrade regarding speakup.  Can I fix this and how do I do it and
> create the least amount of damage as both systems seem to
> otherwise be okay.
> 
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Setting up espeakup (1:0.80-5+deb9u2) ...
> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling ba
> ck to defaults
> Failed to start espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service is not loaded properly:
> Invalid argument.
> See system logs and 'systemctl status espeakup.service' for details.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
> Ï espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
>    Loaded: error (Reason: Invalid argument)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>      Docs: man:espeakup(8)
> 
> Dec 15 14:09:18 wb5agz systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12&CE}'
> Dec 15 14:09:18 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks both Exe&ing.
> Dec 15 14:09:19 wb5agz systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12&CE}'
> Dec 15 14:09:19 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks both Exe&ing.
> Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
> dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  espeakup
> 
> 	
> 	I had built both systems from a stretch install iso image
> and they both talked through the installation but the problems
> appeared to start after a few upgrades as in
> 
> apt-get update;aptget -upgrade
> 
> 
> Thanks for any and all constructive ideas.
> 
> Martin McCormick
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@linux-speakup.org
> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: Debian Stretch and speakup Aren't Playing Nicely.

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Martin McCormick, le mar. 18 déc. 2018 20:41:03 -0600, a ecrit:
> After upgrading 2 Debian systems to stretch, speakup has died on
> both systems.

> Setting up espeakup (1:0.80-5+deb9u2) ...
> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling ba
> ck to defaults
> Failed to start espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service is not loaded properly:
> Invalid argument.

As mentioned on the debian-accessibility mailing list last month, there
is an issue in version 1:0.80-5+deb9u2, you can use version
1:0.80-5+deb9u3 which is available on

https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/stretch-staging/espeakup_0.80-5+deb9u3_amd64.deb

as well as in the stretch-proposed-updates distribution, to be included
in next stretch point release.

Samuel

Re: Debian Stretch and speakup Aren't Playing Nicely.

[Martin McCormick]

	Thank you very much.  I probably missed the update and
that is exactly what is wrong, here.  I knew I needed to install
an upgraded version of speakup as the problems coincided exactly
with the upgrade.  Before I do this, this system is an older
600 MHZ 32-bit processor.  The Debian image I downloaded was
stretch for the I86 systems. 

	Does this even matter?

Again, thanks.

Martin

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> Hello,
> As mentioned on the debian-accessibility mailing list last month, there
> is an issue in version 1:0.80-5+deb9u2, you can use version
> 1:0.80-5+deb9u3 which is available on
> 
> https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/stretch-staging/espeakup_0.80-5+deb9u3_amd64.deb
> 
> as well as in the stretch-proposed-updates distribution, to be included
> in next stretch point release.
> 
> Samuel

Re: Debian Stretch and speakup Aren't Playing Nicely.

[Samuel Thibault]

Martin McCormick, le mer. 19 déc. 2018 07:04:22 -0600, a ecrit:
> The Debian image I downloaded was
> stretch for the I86 systems. 
> 
> 	Does this even matter?

It is the same issue for all architectures.

Samuel

Re: Debian Stretch and speakup Aren't Playing Nicely.

[Dietmar Segbert]

Hello Samuel,

on the Raspbian and debian stretch 32 bit are the same errors since a  
update vor a few weeks.

Regards

Dietmar

> samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org schrieb am 19.12.18:

> Hello,

> Martin McCormick, le mar. 18 déc. 2018 20:41:03 -0600, a ecrit:
>> After upgrading 2 Debian systems to stretch, speakup has died on
>> both systems.

>> Setting up espeakup (1:0.80-5+deb9u2) ...
>> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported;
>> falling ba ck to defaults
>> Failed to start espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service is not loaded
>> properly: Invalid argument.

> As mentioned on the debian-accessibility mailing list last month, there
> is an issue in version 1:0.80-5+deb9u2, you can use version
> 1:0.80-5+deb9u3 which is available on

> https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/stretch-staging/espeakup_0.80-5+deb
> 9u3_amd64.deb

> as well as in the stretch-proposed-updates distribution, to be included
> in next stretch point release.

> Samuel
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@linux-speakup.org
> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Debian Stretch and speakup Aren't Playing Nicely.

[Martin McCormick]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> It is the same issue for all architectures.
> 
> Samuel

Again, thank you very much.

Martin

Re: Debian Stretch and speakup Aren't Playing Nicely.

[Samuel Thibault]

Dietmar Segbert, le mer. 19 déc. 2018 15:10:00 +0000, a ecrit:
> on the Raspbian and debian stretch 32 bit are the same errors since a  
> update vor a few weeks.

Sure, you need to use the -3 version to avoid the issue. It's available
from stretch-proposed-updates:

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stretch-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

Samuel