Thank you so much for your help! I just upgraded my Arch system as well, and started noticing these failures. Good thing I could SSH in from my Mac. The fix seems to help. I’ll try to remember to check back about this. I’ll also go back and read the thread. Thanks again. > On Aug 31, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Zachary Kline <zkline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear Chuck, > > You missed some discussion on this a few weeks ago. > > To sum up, it’s a Portaudio bug which has been noticed thanks to an Alsa upgrade, and there is a temporary workaround. All you need to do is edit “espeakup.service,” or create a drop-in snippet. In the [Service] section, put the line > Environment=LIBASOUND_THREAD_SAFE=0 > > Case is important here, and the way I did it was to just do “sudo systemctl edit espeakup.service.” I hope this helps. > Best, > Zack. >> On Aug 31, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I've been away for some time, but have just resubscribed. >> I currently use ArchLinux on a Dell Optiplex 780, refurbished, from Amazon. >> Also still stubbornly using only command line interface, >> just can't warm up to a GUI. >> >> I'm Currently having an issue involving random failures of speech, >> and am able to restore speech by issuing two systemctl commands, >> one to stop espeakup.service, and the next to start it again. >> How can I get further information to narrow the problem down to >> espeakup, or speakup, or espeak? Recovery from the failures is reliable, >> but I'd rather find and fix the cause. >> >> Chuck >> >> >> -- >> Willoughby Ohio >> Temperature 75�F >> Conditions Light Rain >> The Moon is New >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
