Re: Bug#586753: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze
severity 586753 serious
severity 593968 serious
retitle 593968 should at least recommend pulseaudio
thanks
Samuel Thibault, le Fri 24 Sep 2010 01:52:34 +0200, a écrit :
> Kenny Hitt, le Thu 23 Sep 2010 10:24:50 -0500, a écrit :
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:52:47PM +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> > > The upstream 0.7.1 release fixes the issues from this bug report,
> > > but is not yet available in Debian. To my knowledge, the version
> > > 0.7 works in Debian too, if used with the default settings. It has troubles
> > > with non-default settings of the communication method.
> >
> > Actually, it doesn't.
> > I purged the existing speech-dispatcher package and did a rm -rf on /etc/speech-dispatcher.
> > Then, I installed the speech-dispatcher package again.
> > my ~/.speech-dispatcher/log/espeak.log contains the following:
> >
> > pulse.c: pa_simple_new() failed: Connection refused
> >
> > That's why I returned to gnome-speech. It's the only way currently to use orca in Debian Sid or Squeeze.
>
> As usual, pasting the exact error message helps a lot to understand what
> the real issue is. It's not the speechd connection, but the now-default
> pulseaudio output connection. See
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593968
So apparently there are two issues:
- migration path from previous 0.6 which apparently just breaks working
systems without a clear way to get something working again but
dropping one's configuration entirely. Thus marking it serious.
- pulseaudio not "just working", apparently just because the pulseaudio
daemon is not installed/started. This means that as it is the package
is unusable by default when just installing it. Thus marking it
serious too. pulseaudio should at _least_ be recommended, so it gets
installed by default by various apt tools without making it a strict
requirement.
Samuel
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