jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:49:54 From: Paul Gevers <elbrus@xxxxxxxxxx> To: submit at bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#735202: Fwd: speakup freezes when trying to past Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:51:06 +0000 Resent-From: Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist at lists.debian.org Resent-cc: Debian Accessibility Team <debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org> Package: speakup Severity: critical Justification: hangs the system which can cause serious data loss Forwarded the following message as a proper bug report, such that it isn't lost: https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2014/01/msg00079.html -------- Original Message -------- Subject: speakup freezes when trying to past Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:16:58 -0500 From: Doug Smith To: debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org Message-id: <20140112031658.GA3563 at Enterprise> Ok, folks, here's a strange one. Recently, the kernel in debian testing was upgraded to 3.12. When I saw it in the upgrades, I thought: "Well, nice, it will be interesting to see what kind of hardware support we have here." However, the following thing happened one night when my girlfriend tryed to youtube-dl on her machine which has the same system as this. The system froze up completely. She called me close to midnight on Monday night, January 6 and asked me to come over to see if I could unfreeze her system. The speech had gone out and she couldn't get it to talk or do anything. Since we are in neighboring rooms at the facility in which we live, I got up, got dressed and went over there. When I got there, I tried everything to unlock her system. I finally had to press the power button. I asked her what she had done and she told me that she had tried to youtube-dl. I tried the same thing she had done with the same results. The next day, I tried it on my system with the same result. I can reproduce this with no problem, but, because it locks the entire system up, no changing consoles, no speech, nothing works, I have no way to file a bug report on it. However, I found out what the problem was. It wasn't the youtube-dl, it was with speakup. To reproduce, do this: 1. Using the latest kernel in debian testing, which is 3.12, cut some text from anywhere you want. 2. paste this text, if you can, using speakup's cut and paste features, and watch what happens. Within a few Ms, your system is totally frozen and will not do anything. 3. Try to get it unlocked. It won't work. There is no speech, no system messages, no changing consoles, no getting at anything of importance to find out what happened. The two machines in question are an Acer Aspire 1, in my girlfriend's case and a Compaq CQ-61 in my case. This is using the 64-bit architecture with the entire system functioning perfectly with this exception. I am not sure what has happened, but I hope it will be fixed soon. We have had one of these command line debian installs for several months and the other one was just done a week ago.
