Package: speech-dispatcher Version: 0.8-7 Severity: important I am using Orca with Speech-Dispatcher, and just had speech output hung completely. Restarting Orca and even the complete X11 session did not help.
I had to kill the speech-dispatcher process running under my user manually. The process looked something like: /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher --spawn --socket-path /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock --communication-method unix_socket --port 6560 This process was not automatically cleaned up. I am not sure what is the culprit here. Orca or Speech-Dispatcher. In any case, the rogue process should at least have been killed when the X11 session was restarted. This did not happen. This is actually a rather serious bug for those that only rely on speech synthesis to access their computer. It was relatively easy for me as a braille and speech user, to clean this up by hand. However, I can imagine this being a real show stopper if speech is your only means of output from the computer. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages speech-dispatcher depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libdotconf0 1.3-0.2 ii libespeak1 1.48.04+dfsg-1 ii libflite1 1.4-release-12 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.0-2 ii libltdl7 2.4.2-1.11 ii libspeechd2 0.8-7 ii lsb-base 9.20150917 ii speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins 0.8-7 Versions of packages speech-dispatcher recommends: ii pulseaudio 7.0-1 Versions of packages speech-dispatcher suggests: pn libttspico-utils <none> pn speech-dispatcher-doc-cs <none> pn speech-dispatcher-festival <none> -- no debconf information -- Mario Lang Graz University of Technology IT Services - Computing Steyrergasse 30/1, 8010 Graz, Austria - Europe Phone: +43 316 873 6897 Mobile: +43 664 60 873 6897 Email: ml...@tugraz.at www.zid.tugraz.at