It's entirely possible espeakup is crashing. When this happens, I can't restart espeakup either so end up having to reboot to regain control of the system. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sat, 17 Aug 2024, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Jude: This may be a silly question, but are you sure it's speakup > crashing? Often, espeakup dies here and so I have a simple script to > kill it off and restart espeakup. I haven''t had speakup itself hang > the system for quite a while. > > Kirk > > On Sat, 17 Aug 2024, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Every so often speakup crashes on my computer. > > I am running a recent version of Jenux so systemd is in use here. > > What I would like to know is a procedure once the system has been rebooted > > to locate any crash messages speakup may have left in logs. pipewire is > > running the sound system along with alsa here and there's necessary > > pulseaudio artifacts pipewire uses on the system. > > > > > > -- > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. > > Please use in that order." > > Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > >