-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alastair, On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:21:19PM +0000, Alastair Irving wrote: > I'm running speakup on a gentoo system under vmware, kernel version > 2.6.27-gentoo-r8, and the gentoo speakup ebuild which is revision > 2008.08.02. I use the software synthesis module. > > Everything is generally working fine, however, if I do anything that would > cause speakup to speak when either speechd-up or espeakup is not running, > (even just pressing a single key), the whole system crashes. I assume its > some kind of kernel pannic, I can no longer read the screen with brltty, or > SSH in, or do anything, (so I don't know if any errors are printed to the > screen at this point). This is rather annoying as to start speakup I have > to use sSSH to modprobe speakup_soft and load espeakup. Once I've done > this I can use the system normally and it speaks. Similarly, before > shutting down the system I have to SSH in, and unload espeakup and modprobe > -r speakup_soft. Otherwise, if I shutdown, espeakup is unloaded and then > presumably speakup tries to say something and everything hangs. > > I've looked in the syslog after rebooting, but no errors are shown. > > > Has anyone else experienced this? It seems rather bizarre and I don't know > what to try to resolve it. Unfortunately, this is a known bug which we haven't been able to find yet. The weird thing about it is that it doesn't happen on all systems. I am running gentoo as well and I have been completely unable to reproduce it. Any information at all that you can give us would help greatly. Thanks, William -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmcxzUACgkQblQW9DDEZThfAQCeMFBKqB8+BPg7VdKlvQgB8Zki pncAn0GXi76/tyfF8xO+pE6hdS3jMy3V =TU+X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
