Re: [g-a-devel] Festival will not work with gnome-speech 0.3.6.

[Oana Serb <os baum ro>]

Hello,

The problem seems to be in the /etc/hosts configuration file. For more
details, see:
http://www.speechio.org/speechio.faq.html

Regards,
Oana Serb


> -----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>
> To: gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org, GNOME Accessibility Mailing List <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [g-a-devel] Festival will not work with gnome-speech 0.3.6.
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:41:31 -0600
> 
> Hi.
> I saw your post about your solution.  For info, the contents of
> my /usr/share/festival/festival.scm are:
> 
> (defvar server_access_list '(localhost)
> 
> I also have a /etc/festival.scm file the contents of that file are:
> 
> (set! server_access_list '(localhost spot))
> Spot is the name of this box.  My entry in /etc/hosts for IP 127.0.0.1
> looks like:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost spot localhost.localdomain
> 
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
> 
> 	  
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:29:21PM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > I have now found at least a temporary work-around.
> > 
> > It is possible to set the server_access_list variable to allow only 
> > certain hosts to connect to the Festival server. This variable can be 
> > set in /usr/share/festival/festival.scm, at least on Ubuntu and Debian.
> > 
> > The variable is in fact set correctly to localhost, and very likely has 
> > been set that way from the beginning. However, something is preventing 
> > local clients from connecting.
> > 
> > When changing this variable's setting to either nil or 
> > localhost.localdomain, a successful connection to the server is 
> > possible. However, for security, the nil setting is certinly not an 
> > option.
> > 
> > I don't yet know whether this is caused by something having been changed 
> > in another package, or a change in Festival between revision 13 and 16. 
> > I can certainly chace that up if people are interested however.
> > 
> > I thought I would share this all with you in case there is somebody else 
> > out there with the same problem.
> > 
> > Luke
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