Hello, Jude DaShiell, le Tue 07 Dec 2010 01:19:45 -0500, a ?crit : > When the system rebooted, I > got prompted to log in so logged in as the user account and everything > went silent. I guess the speech engine was festival? There is an issue with it: the festival instance started for gdm doesn't get killed by bonobo. The gnome maintainers have demoted the dependency to just install espeak by default, this should be available within a couple of weeks, in any case for squeeze. As a workaround, just purge the festival package. > Attempting to log in as root invariably resulted in > authentication failure. That is the expected behavior at the gdm login prompt. > The desktop installation also threw > lots of exceptions spoken by the litetalk speech synthesizer on the way to > a boot up. Just to make sure: how much memory do you have? You should report the text of these exception, else we'd need to use divination to be able to fix them. Samuel
