Re: [orca-list] speech-dispatcher 0.6.2

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I have got speech-dispatcher 0.6.2 running on ubuntu, I did it by
compiling from source. I think I removed the ubuntu speech-dispatcher
0.6.1 package first (so if speech-dispatcher is installed in the default
prefix /usr/local then it won't cause possible problems). I then used
the old ubuntu package init script for speech-dispatcher, but modified
it to use user root instead of user speech-dispatcher. I think that
solved it, I may have missed something though and don't know if this
might cause potential security issues.

From
Michael Whapples
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:55 +0200, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Guy Schlosser wrote:
> > Hey there Tomas and other listers, this is really weird.  I modified the 
> > init.d script to point to the newly compiled speech-dispatcher, and on 
> > bootup, I receive the error message "can't create pid in 
> > /var/run/speech-dispatcher".  When I launch from the command ($sudo 
> > speech-dispatcher), this error does not occur.  Any ideas?  Again, 
> > thanks much in advance for all the help.
>
> Hi Guy, I'd really recommend waiting for the Ubuntu package, since the
> package will solve these problems for you.  If you try solving them yourself
> it is always hacking and it requires quite some expertise.  If there is 
> anyone who managed to solve that on a Ubuntu box, I'd be glad to hear. 
> It's hard for me to give an advice since I don't have a Ubuntu system to 
> try on.  In general, SD needs the directory /var/run/speech-dispatcher 
> to exist and to be writable by the user under which it runs.  As far as 
> I understand it, /var is mounted as tmpfs in ubuntu so that is causing 
> the trouble...
>
> Best regards
>
> Tomas