From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id A70C41EFE1E; Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:37:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BDA21EFE0F for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:37:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2775117BC9; Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:36:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id 8A33614B9A; Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:36:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D9214B7F; Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:36:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:36:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jude DaShiell To: mike@raspberryvi.org, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: you really do not want to upgrade to alsa-lib 1.1.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <87bn12esnr.fsf@mushroom.localdomain> <877fbqerwo.fsf@mushroom.localdomain> <57A9AA48.4080608@gmail.com> <87wpjqcipf.fsf@mushroom.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (NEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:37:01 -0000 Very likely, espeak was crashing just on console use with command line interface over here. On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, Mike Ray wrote: > Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 07:12:23 > From: Mike Ray > To: speakup@linux-speakup.org > Subject: Re: you really do not want to upgrade to alsa-lib 1.1.2 > > > Could this be what is causing the sd_espeak module of speech-dispatcher > to regularly crash and be unloaded when using speech-dispatcher set to > 'AudioOutputMethod "alsa' ? > > Mike > > > > > On 09/08/2016 11:58, Chris Brannon wrote: >> Kyle writes: >> >>> I was ready to release TalkingArch this month, just a little >>> late. Looks like I may need to hold off until next month. Is this a >>> mostly correct assessment, or is my build from Saturday OK to continue >>> the testing and sign-off process? Thanks for the heads-up. >> >> I don't know which package your Saturday build contains. >> When did 1.1.2 hit [extra]? It was probably sometime close to then. >> If you've got alsa-lib 1.1.1 or older, you should be good to go. >> >> So I've spent the best part of 3 hours tonight looking at the espeak >> source. I'm reasonably convinced there's a race condition in the audio >> output code, even though it looks like plenty of care was taken to >> guarantee that this couldn't happen. Or maybe I'm seeing >> things that aren't really there, and there's no race after all. >> Sometimes I feel like the most phony of amateurs. >> Anyway what I think happened is that a change to the alsa library has >> done something to trigger a race condition that has been around for a >> long time. >> >> -- Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > > -- > Michael A. Ray > Analyst/Programmer > Witley, Surrey, South-east UK > > Eyes-free Linux: > http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ > > Raspberry VI: > http://www.raspberryvi.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup --