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