Re: [orca-list] speech-dispatcher crashing

[Hynek Hanke <hanke brailcom org>]

Guy Schlosser:
> Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this 
> problem with speech-dispatcher 0.6.7.  For some reason I have 
> intermittent crashes of the espeak module.  The reasons I blame it on 
> the s-d espeak module are:
> 1. When I have a crash, issuing a 'killall speech-dispatcher', then 
> re-executing s-d brings speech back.
> 2. In my speechd.log, I have several occurrences of "broken pipe to 
> module", and "module terminated abnormally."
What version of libasound are you using? There are known issues
with libasound 1.0.16 that cause such crashes of output modules.

With regards,
Hynek Hanke