Bug#801670: speech-dispatcher: Hangs and does no longer take speech from Orca until killed

[Samuel Thibault]

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Hello,

Mario Lang, le mar. 13 oct. 2015 11:39:04 +0200, a ecrit:
> 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.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:50:32AM AEDT, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> I'm wondering what to do with this bug report: 0.8.1 has long been
> uploaded. Perhaps also what Luke was talking about?  Of course, if
> speech-dispatcher still has hangs we need to investigate.

Luke Yelavich, le mer. 18 janv. 2017 13:20:33 +1100, a ecrit:
> Well, the shutdown stuff I was talking about was released in 0.8.5, so by 
> default, Speech Dispatcher should shut itself down after 5 seconds of no 
> clients being connected, but if there are other hangs, then yes I agree they 
> need to be investigated.

Are we still seeing such hangs?

Samuel

Bug#801670: [Tts-project] Bug#801670: speech-dispatcher: Hangs and does no longer take speech from Orca until killed

[Luke Yelavich]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:50:32AM AEDT, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> I'm wondering what to do with this bug report: 0.8.1 has long been
> uploaded. Perhaps also what Luke was talking about?  Of course, if
> speech-dispatcher still has hangs we need to investigate.

Well, the shutdown stuff I was talking about was released in 0.8.5, so by 
default, Speech Dispatcher should shut itself down after 5 seconds of no 
clients being connected, but if there are other hangs, then yes I agree they 
need to be investigated.

Luke

Bug#801670: [Tts-project] Bug#801670: speech-dispatcher: Hangs and does no longer take speech from Orca until killed

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Luke Yelavich, on Wed 14 Oct 2015 09:26:45 +1100, wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015@08:39:04PM AEDT, Mario Lang wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This brings to mind a work-around that was added to Speech Dispatcher in
> 0.8.1, that would kill the server if a speech synth module died and the
> connection to it was lost. Its not a clean solution, but it would@least
> mean that the Speech Dispatcher daemon could be restarted automatically
> after it died.
> 
> The commit from upstream git where this is fixed is 7a4fae3d.
> 
> As for Speech DIspatcher not being cleaned up when X shuts down, that
> is something that is addressed in the current master development branch,
> although there is no ETA for release, given its a big change, and other
> changes are planned.

I'm wondering what to do with this bug report: 0.8.1 has long been
uploaded. Perhaps also what Luke was talking about?  Of course, if
speech-dispatcher still has hangs we need to investigate.

Samuel

Bug#801670: speech-dispatcher: Hangs and does no longer take speech from Orca until killed

[Mario Lang]

Halim Sahin  writes:

> Which audiooutputmethod are you using?

The default, whatever that is.  This machine is freshly installed.

> If you use pulseaudio
> it might be interesting to find out if speech-dispatcher was crashed or
> pulseaudio.

Killing the speech-dispatcher process cleaned the problem up.  I did not
need to fiddle with PulseAudio to get sound back.  So I rather suspect
the culprit was Speech-Dispatcher.

-- 
CYa,
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Bug#801670: speech-dispatcher: Hangs and does no longer take speech from Orca until killed

[Mario Lang]

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  libc62.19-22
ii  libdotconf0  1.3-0.2
ii  libespeak1   1.48.04+dfsg-1
ii  libflite11.4-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
pn  speech-dispatcher-doc-cs
pn  speech-dispatcher-festival  

-- 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

Bug#801670: speech-dispatcher: Hangs and does no longer take speech from Orca until killed

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 08:39:04PM AEDT, Mario Lang wrote:
> 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.

This brings to mind a work-around that was added to Speech Dispatcher in
0.8.1, that would kill the server if a speech synth module died and the
connection to it was lost. Its not a clean solution, but it would at least
mean that the Speech Dispatcher daemon could be restarted automatically
after it died.

The commit from upstream git where this is fixed is 7a4fae3d.

As for Speech DIspatcher not being cleaned up when X shuts down, that
is something that is addressed in the current master development branch,
although there is no ETA for release, given its a big change, and other
changes are planned.

Luke