Rynhardt P Kruger wrote: > I have a strange problem on my grml 1.1 rc1 box. > Often speech-dispatcher will crash, with nothing in the log and no message on the console. Hello Runhardt, what exactly do you mean by ,,nothing in the log''? Do you mean there is no clear reason for the crash at the end of the log file or do you mean that the logfile has 0 bytes? In the first case, please increase the LogLevel in speechd.conf to 5, switch Debug to 1 (and remove the # comment character) in espeak.conf or whatever module you are using and send me speechd.log and espeak.log to hanke at brailcom.org (not the list since it will be big file), perhaps we can deduce something. If you really mean the logfile is totally empty, then there must be some path or permission problem. Please write where do you expect the log to be, how do you run speechd and what is the result of ls -l speechd.log . Thank you, Hynek