speakup freezes when trying to past
Ok, folks, here's a strange one. Recently, the kernel in debian testing was upgraded to 3.12. When I saw it in the upgrades, I thought: "Well, nice.
"Well, nice, it will be interesting to see what kind of hardware support we have here." However, the following thing happened one night when my
girlfriend tryed to youtube-dl on her machine which has the same system as this. The system froze up completely. She called me close to midnight on
Monday night, January 6 and asked me to come over to see if I could unfreeze her system. The speech had gone out and she couldn't get it to talk or
do anything.
Since we are in neighboring rooms at the facility in which we live, I got up, got dressed and went over there. When I got there, I tried everything
to unlock her system. I finally had to press the power button. I asked her what she had done and she told me that she had tried to youtube-dl. I
tried the same thing she had done with the same results. The next day, I tried it on my system with the same result.
I can reproduce this with no problem, but, because it locks the entire system up, no changing consoles, no speech, nothing works, I have no way to
file a bug report on it. However, I found out what the problem was.
It wasn't the youtube-dl, it was with speakup. To reproduce, do this:
1. Using the latest kernel in debian testing, which is 3.12, cut some text from anywhere you want.
2. paste this text, if you can, using speakup's cut and paste features, and watch what happens. Within a few Ms, your system is totally frozen and
will not do anything.
3. Try to get it unlocked. It won't work. There is no speech, no system messages, no changing consoles, no getting at anything of importance to find
out what happened.
The two machines in question are an Acer Aspire 1, in my girlfriend's case and a Compaq CQ-61 in my case. This is using the 64-bit architecture with
the entire system functioning perfectly with this exception.
I am not sure what has happened, but I hope it will be fixed soon. We have had one of these command line debian installs for several months and the
other one was just done a week ago.
Hope this helps.
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Doug Smith: Special Agent
S.W.A.T Spiritual Warfare and Advanced Technology
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