Hi Trev, I know the mentioned bug report. However I am not sure if my problem is the same here. Keyring is not accessible only for networkmanager and keyring. The messenger empathy uses keyring as well and does not freeze orca. I did more testing with the speechd package of squeeze. No libao was compiled in and alsa driver crashs every 5 minutes here. @Samuel: is there no way to upgrade the speechd package to 0.7.1 BR. Halim