Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

[Frank Carmickle <frank@carmickle.com>]

> On Dec 20, 2023, at 13:21, Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, James Addison wrote:
> 
>> To do that, the first step is to enable a sources.list entry for debug
>> symbol packages, then to install the gdb and espeakup-dbgsym packages,
>> and then after the espeakup process stops speaking, to attach the gdb
>> debugger to locate where it got stuck by running: gdb
>> /usr/bin/espeakup <pid-of-broken-process>
>> 
>> If that works and you are provided with a (gdb) shell, you should be
>> able to type the single word 'bt' and press enter to get a backtrace,
>> and then copy and paste the results here.
> 
> It took me a couple of goes, and I lost speech entirely both times (not sure why), but I got a trace.
> 
> I'm not sure how helpful it is though.
> 
> root@debian:~# gdb /usr/bin/espeakup 861
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> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/espeakup...
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/76/62ad26e5f970e59309a544f3864db114aa389e.debug...
> Attaching to program: /usr/bin/espeakup, process 861
> [New LWP 862]
> [New LWP 863]
> [New LWP 864]
> [New LWP 865]
> [New LWP 866]
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
> 0x00007f9de46bfda6 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007f9de46bfda6 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> #1  0x00007f9de46c4b33 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> #2  0x00005605c505e734 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>)
>    at ../src/espeakup.c:229

Thanks for working on this.

Just to document, line 229 of espeakup.c is

pthread_join(signal_thread_id, NULL);

--FC