Re: test-speech only works for root

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Don:

This certainly 'smells' like a permissions problem.  I believe the 
Festival gnome-speech server relies on the ability to write to a 
particular port, perhaps 7000?  I am sure someone else on the list can 
provide that detail.  My guess is that root has write access to that 
port, but not the normal user group.

Perhaps someone else recalls offhand which port Festival uses and how to 
quickly check those permissions... normally non-root programs can access 
ports numbered above 1024, but perhaps your system is set up differently?

regards,

Bill

Donald Raikes wrote:

> I just installed gnome-speech-0.3 on my fedora core 3 system as a part of
> garnome 2.12.2.1, and now when I run test-speech (either the newly created
> one, or the original from the os installation), it only works for root.
>
> If i use another user, I get the message:
>
> attempting to activate OFIID:Gnome_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.3
>
> and the system hangs.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Don Raikes
> http://www.draikes.com
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