Bug#775137: unblock: espeakup/1:0.71-19
Control: tag -1 confirmed Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net (2015-01-13): Control: tags -1 d-i Ok from RT, CC'ing KiBi for d-i ACK. Original message quoted below for KiBi's convenience. (Thanks.) No objections. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#775137: unblock: espeakup/1:0.71-19
Control: tags -1 d-i Ok from RT, CC'ing KiBi for d-i ACK. Original message quoted below for KiBi's convenience. ~Niels On 2015-01-11 22:20, Samuel Thibault wrote: Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package espeakup It has been only reported to me today that currently the boot with speech synthesis is very noisy. This surprised me since nowadays kernel messages are gone and systemd is silent by default. What happens is just that there is a daemon start test race in the espeakup startup script, and thus systemd always thinks that espeakup failed to start, and thus enters degraded mode, where it prints all startup logs, which takes several minutes to get spoken by the speech synthesis! The start test race is recorded as bug #775131. Fixing it properly will mean patching the daemon quite a bit, I'd rather avoid that at this stage of the release. In upload 1:0.71-19 of espeakup, whose changes are attached, I have instead just enabled the existing STARTTIME variable, which makes the script wait for a couple of seconds before testing. This will work in most cases, and since with systemd we have parallel boot, it should not hurt the user experience (in any case, much less than the several-minutes-long noisy messages). unblock espeakup/1:0.71-19 [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#775137: unblock: espeakup/1:0.71-19
Niels Thykier, le Tue 13 Jan 2015 18:19:26 +0100, a écrit : Control: tags -1 d-i Ok from RT, CC'ing KiBi for d-i ACK. Original message quoted below for KiBi's convenience. (The patch is only for the installed package, it does not change the d-i package). ~Niels On 2015-01-11 22:20, Samuel Thibault wrote: Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package espeakup It has been only reported to me today that currently the boot with speech synthesis is very noisy. This surprised me since nowadays kernel messages are gone and systemd is silent by default. What happens is just that there is a daemon start test race in the espeakup startup script, and thus systemd always thinks that espeakup failed to start, and thus enters degraded mode, where it prints all startup logs, which takes several minutes to get spoken by the speech synthesis! The start test race is recorded as bug #775131. Fixing it properly will mean patching the daemon quite a bit, I'd rather avoid that at this stage of the release. In upload 1:0.71-19 of espeakup, whose changes are attached, I have instead just enabled the existing STARTTIME variable, which makes the script wait for a couple of seconds before testing. This will work in most cases, and since with systemd we have parallel boot, it should not hurt the user experience (in any case, much less than the several-minutes-long noisy messages). unblock espeakup/1:0.71-19 [...] -- Samuel v je viens d'inventer mutt version magritte :D y ? v dans mutt v tape cceci return -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#775137: unblock: espeakup/1:0.71-19
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package espeakup It has been only reported to me today that currently the boot with speech synthesis is very noisy. This surprised me since nowadays kernel messages are gone and systemd is silent by default. What happens is just that there is a daemon start test race in the espeakup startup script, and thus systemd always thinks that espeakup failed to start, and thus enters degraded mode, where it prints all startup logs, which takes several minutes to get spoken by the speech synthesis! The start test race is recorded as bug #775131. Fixing it properly will mean patching the daemon quite a bit, I'd rather avoid that at this stage of the release. In upload 1:0.71-19 of espeakup, whose changes are attached, I have instead just enabled the existing STARTTIME variable, which makes the script wait for a couple of seconds before testing. This will work in most cases, and since with systemd we have parallel boot, it should not hurt the user experience (in any case, much less than the several-minutes-long noisy messages). unblock espeakup/1:0.71-19 -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.18.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- Samuel 2 + 2 = 5 pour d'assez grandes valeurs de 2 diff -u espeakup-0.71/debian/changelog espeakup-0.71/debian/changelog --- espeakup-0.71/debian/changelog +++ espeakup-0.71/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +espeakup (1:0.71-19) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Enable STARTTIME to work around racy daemon start test. + + -- Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:14:54 +0100 + espeakup (1:0.71-18) unstable; urgency=medium * synth.c: Fix spelling capital keystrokes (Closes: #770753) diff -u espeakup-0.71/debian/espeakup.init espeakup-0.71/debian/espeakup.init --- espeakup-0.71/debian/espeakup.init +++ espeakup-0.71/debian/espeakup.init @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ # Espeakup init.d script with LSB support. # # Copyright (c) 2007 Javier Fernandez-Sanguino j...@debian.org -# Copyright (c) 2009 Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org +# Copyright (c) 2009, 2015 Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org # # This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ # let some servers to die gracefully and # 'restart' will not work -#STARTTIME=2 # Time to wait for the server to start, in seconds +STARTTIME=2 # Time to wait for the server to start, in seconds # If this value is set each time the server is # started (on start or restart) the script will # stall to try to determine if it is running
