Gregory Nowak <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote: >On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:00:18PM -0400, Jason Miller wrote: >> * Starting Speakup/espeak connector espeakup [80G Unable to open >> the softsynth device: Device or resource busy >> [74G[[31mfail[39;49m] >> invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed. >> dpkg: error processing espeakup (--configure): >> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >> Errors were encountered while processing: >> espeakup >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) >> > >Do you have the speakup_soft kernel module loaded when you try >installing espeakup? This is exactly what will happen during an upgrade: the module is already running when the new version is installed.
