Package: espeakup Version: 1:0.80-5+deb9u2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? I was upgrading my stable system with newest packages from mirrors, and espeakup was mentioned as an upgrade candedate. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I ran "apt update," and "apt upgrade." Espeakup lost speech mid-way through as the systemd service failed to install properly. * What was the outcome of this action? Espeakup fails to start properly via systemd, instead requiring manual intervention. A transcript follows: Setting up espeakup (1:0.80-5+deb9u2) ... update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Failed to start espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service is not loaded properly: Invalid argument. See system logs and 'systemctl status espeakup.service' for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed. * espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup Loaded: error (Reason: Invalid argument) Active: inactive (dead) Docs: man:espeakup(8) Nov 10 22:22:27 zork systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12] Executable path is not absolute, ignoring: sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/bWhat -V ${VOICE}'Nov 10 22:22:27 zork systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks both ExecStart= and ExecStop= setting. Refusing. Nov 10 22:35:55 zork systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12] Executable path is not absolute, ignoring: sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/boutcome -V ${VOICE}'Nov 10 22:35:55 zork systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks both ExecStart= and ExecStop= setting. Refusing. Nov 10 22:35:55 zork systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12] Executable path is not absolute, ignoring: sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/bdid -V ${VOICE}'Nov 10 22:35:55 zork systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks both ExecStart= and ExecStop= setting. Refusing. Nov 10 22:37:17 zork systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12] Executable path is not absolute, ignoring: sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/byou -V ${VOICE}'Nov 10 22:37:17 zork systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks both ExecStart= and ExecStop= setting. Refusing. Nov 10 22:37:17 zork systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12] Executable path is not absolute, ignoring: sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/bexpect -V ${VOICE}'Nov 10 22:37:17 zork systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks both ExecStart= and ExecStop= setting. Refusing. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: espeakup I expected espeakup to upgrade smoothly, particularly since this is a "stable," release. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages espeakup depends on: ii espeak 1.48.04+dfsg-5+b1 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libespeak-ng1 1.49.0+dfsg-11 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 espeakup recommends no packages. espeakup suggests no packages. -- no debconf information