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Re: Orca does not speak

[Glenn / Lenny]

Now that you mention that,
I wonder if I could have gone to a terminal and did:
sudo apt-get update
and fixed the problem.
I could have done that much without speech.
Glenn
- Original Message - 
From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ; 

Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak


If you do try anymore ubuntu I suggest getting your system installed.
If your new system talks, only download missing packages you want and if
you suddenly loose speech and haven't rebooted remove what you just
installed.  On no account do any system-wide updates of that new system
until you read on this list that the no sound problem you have has been
solved and wait for at least one confirmation message from another user
who did the update and has orca working.

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:57:19
> From: Glenn / Lenny 
> To: Jude DaShiell , 
> ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Orca does not speak
>
> yeah, that would be pretty much impossible with no speech.
> If I don't get a solution, I don't know what is next.
> Maybe the 32 bit install will not do this?
> Glenn
> - Original Message -
> From: "Jude DaShiell" 
> To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;
> 
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 9:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Orca does not speak
>
>
> I don't know how accessibility on ubuntu command line works or what tool
> To do what the arch downgrade script does, you would have to get a package
> manager to show your installed package version and a a numbered list of
> all other versions.  Then you'd select the version and select whether to
> ignore versions higher than what's installed in the future.  Many times a
> whole group of packages have to be downgraded together in order not to
> break dependencies and in what you'll read below it's a pretty big list
> with respect to pulseaudio.  How all of this is done with apt-get or
> aptitude I never did learn.
>
> From isfe...@gmail.com Thu Aug  4 21:04:12 2016
> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:04:05
> From: tim 
> To: Jude DaShiell 
> Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
> Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?
>
> I've fixed it! I had to downgrade libpulse, pulseaudio,
> pulseaudio-bluetooth, pulseaudio-zeroconf, pulseaudio-lirc, and
> pulseaudio-gconf from 9 to 8.3 or maybe it's 4, I then removed
> .config/pulseaudioctl and .config/pulse restarted and I have sound!
> thanks all this was really worrying me!
>
>
>
> On 08/04/2016 05:14 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> Okay, my suggestion here would be first to downgrade libpulse then
>> downgrade lightdm unless lightdm also gets downgraded by downgrading
>> libpulse.  Hope this helps.  Oh, I forgot if you have
>> speech-dispatcher-git on your system try spd-say "hello, world!" and
>> see if you get any sound that way.
>>
>> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, tim wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:56:58
>>> From: tim 
>>> To: Jude DaShiell 
>>> Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?
>>>
>>> Still stuck, downgraded lightdm and when attempting to downgrade
>>> pulseaudio, I run in to this warning: downgrading package pulseaudio
>>> (9.0-1 => 8.0-2)
>>> resolving dependencies...
>>> warning: cannot resolve "libpulse=8.0-2", a dependency of "pulseaudio"
>>> :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable
>>> dependencies:
>>>  pulseaudio
>>>
>>> :: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
>>> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
>>> it's strange I can't get speech on anything, but when running mplayer
>>> a filename.mp3 I get sound! so am stuck, and speech dispatcher is at
>>> 0.8.4 i believe somewhere around there.  I hope I don't have to
>>> reinstall cause of this. I doubt it but it's puzzling.
>>>
>>> On 8/3/16, Jude DaShiell  wrote:
 First, alsamixer is being bogarted by pulseaudio.  Probably pamixer
 will
 give you better results.  Second, aplay is also bogarted by pulseaudio
 so download and use alsaplayer and that should make alsaplayer if all
 optional packages get installed capable of playing what aplay used to
 play.  Third, I think I found why speech got broken both before and
 after lightdm is run for mate or gnome.  My speech-dispatcher-git
 package just recently got updated to 0.9.0xxx and I found a
 speech-dispatcherd.service file available so I did systemctl enable
 speech-dispatcherd.service and rebooted the system. Invariably every
 time speech-dispatcherd.service was started it failed.  So no speech
 before or after login.  Since /usr/local/share/sounds/purple/login.wav
 is on my system, I now have 

Re: Orca does not speak

[Jude DaShiell]

If you do try anymore ubuntu I suggest getting your system installed. 
If your new system talks, only download missing packages you want and if 
you suddenly loose speech and haven't rebooted remove what you just 
installed.  On no account do any system-wide updates of that new system 
until you read on this list that the no sound problem you have has been 
solved and wait for at least one confirmation message from another user 
who did the update and has orca working.


On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:


Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:57:19
From: Glenn / Lenny 
To: Jude DaShiell , ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak

yeah, that would be pretty much impossible with no speech.
If I don't get a solution, I don't know what is next.
Maybe the 32 bit install will not do this?
Glenn
- Original Message -
From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;

Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak


I don't know how accessibility on ubuntu command line works or what tool
To do what the arch downgrade script does, you would have to get a package
manager to show your installed package version and a a numbered list of
all other versions.  Then you'd select the version and select whether to
ignore versions higher than what's installed in the future.  Many times a
whole group of packages have to be downgraded together in order not to
break dependencies and in what you'll read below it's a pretty big list
with respect to pulseaudio.  How all of this is done with apt-get or
aptitude I never did learn.

From isfe...@gmail.com Thu Aug  4 21:04:12 2016
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:04:05
From: tim 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

I've fixed it! I had to downgrade libpulse, pulseaudio,
pulseaudio-bluetooth, pulseaudio-zeroconf, pulseaudio-lirc, and
pulseaudio-gconf from 9 to 8.3 or maybe it's 4, I then removed
.config/pulseaudioctl and .config/pulse restarted and I have sound!
thanks all this was really worrying me!



On 08/04/2016 05:14 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:

Okay, my suggestion here would be first to downgrade libpulse then
downgrade lightdm unless lightdm also gets downgraded by downgrading
libpulse.  Hope this helps.  Oh, I forgot if you have
speech-dispatcher-git on your system try spd-say "hello, world!" and
see if you get any sound that way.

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, tim wrote:


Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:56:58
From: tim 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

Still stuck, downgraded lightdm and when attempting to downgrade
pulseaudio, I run in to this warning: downgrading package pulseaudio
(9.0-1 => 8.0-2)
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libpulse=8.0-2", a dependency of "pulseaudio"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable
dependencies:
 pulseaudio

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
it's strange I can't get speech on anything, but when running mplayer
a filename.mp3 I get sound! so am stuck, and speech dispatcher is at
0.8.4 i believe somewhere around there.  I hope I don't have to
reinstall cause of this. I doubt it but it's puzzling.

On 8/3/16, Jude DaShiell  wrote:

First, alsamixer is being bogarted by pulseaudio.  Probably pamixer
will
give you better results.  Second, aplay is also bogarted by pulseaudio
so download and use alsaplayer and that should make alsaplayer if all
optional packages get installed capable of playing what aplay used to
play.  Third, I think I found why speech got broken both before and
after lightdm is run for mate or gnome.  My speech-dispatcher-git
package just recently got updated to 0.9.0xxx and I found a
speech-dispatcherd.service file available so I did systemctl enable
speech-dispatcherd.service and rebooted the system. Invariably every
time speech-dispatcherd.service was started it failed.  So no speech
before or after login.  Since /usr/local/share/sounds/purple/login.wav
is on my system, I now have alsaplayer playing that with alsaplayer -q
./login.wav since I moved that to my home directory and it's in my
.bashrc file since I wanted to hear if I got any successful login on
lightdm and haven't heard login.wav play since these last updates.  I
wish I had better news, but that's where things appear to be now.  Oh,
if speech can't get enabled on the talkingarch system and you want to
recover disk space a command like:
sudo -H pacman -Rcsn xorg
should clear the whole graphical user interface and all configurations
from your system.  It doesn't wipe configurations below your home
directory though.  The warning about this is, if you use vlc 

Re: Orca does not speak

[Jude DaShiell]

the update command only updates your local version of the packages 
database, you would next have to have done apt-get upgrade and hope the 
upgrade didn't break anything. On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:



Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 09:48:03
From: Glenn / Lenny 
To: Jude DaShiell , ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak

Now that you mention that,
I wonder if I could have gone to a terminal and did:
sudo apt-get update
and fixed the problem.
I could have done that much without speech.
Glenn
- Original Message -
From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;

Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak


If you do try anymore ubuntu I suggest getting your system installed.
If your new system talks, only download missing packages you want and if
you suddenly loose speech and haven't rebooted remove what you just
installed.  On no account do any system-wide updates of that new system
until you read on this list that the no sound problem you have has been
solved and wait for at least one confirmation message from another user
who did the update and has orca working.

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:


Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:57:19
From: Glenn / Lenny 
To: Jude DaShiell ,
ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak

yeah, that would be pretty much impossible with no speech.
If I don't get a solution, I don't know what is next.
Maybe the 32 bit install will not do this?
Glenn
- Original Message -
From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ;

Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak


I don't know how accessibility on ubuntu command line works or what tool
To do what the arch downgrade script does, you would have to get a package
manager to show your installed package version and a a numbered list of
all other versions.  Then you'd select the version and select whether to
ignore versions higher than what's installed in the future.  Many times a
whole group of packages have to be downgraded together in order not to
break dependencies and in what you'll read below it's a pretty big list
with respect to pulseaudio.  How all of this is done with apt-get or
aptitude I never did learn.

From isfe...@gmail.com Thu Aug  4 21:04:12 2016
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:04:05
From: tim 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

I've fixed it! I had to downgrade libpulse, pulseaudio,
pulseaudio-bluetooth, pulseaudio-zeroconf, pulseaudio-lirc, and
pulseaudio-gconf from 9 to 8.3 or maybe it's 4, I then removed
.config/pulseaudioctl and .config/pulse restarted and I have sound!
thanks all this was really worrying me!



On 08/04/2016 05:14 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:

Okay, my suggestion here would be first to downgrade libpulse then
downgrade lightdm unless lightdm also gets downgraded by downgrading
libpulse.  Hope this helps.  Oh, I forgot if you have
speech-dispatcher-git on your system try spd-say "hello, world!" and
see if you get any sound that way.

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, tim wrote:


Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:56:58
From: tim 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

Still stuck, downgraded lightdm and when attempting to downgrade
pulseaudio, I run in to this warning: downgrading package pulseaudio
(9.0-1 => 8.0-2)
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libpulse=8.0-2", a dependency of "pulseaudio"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable
dependencies:
 pulseaudio

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
it's strange I can't get speech on anything, but when running mplayer
a filename.mp3 I get sound! so am stuck, and speech dispatcher is at
0.8.4 i believe somewhere around there.  I hope I don't have to
reinstall cause of this. I doubt it but it's puzzling.

On 8/3/16, Jude DaShiell  wrote:

First, alsamixer is being bogarted by pulseaudio.  Probably pamixer
will
give you better results.  Second, aplay is also bogarted by pulseaudio
so download and use alsaplayer and that should make alsaplayer if all
optional packages get installed capable of playing what aplay used to
play.  Third, I think I found why speech got broken both before and
after lightdm is run for mate or gnome.  My speech-dispatcher-git
package just recently got updated to 0.9.0xxx and I found a
speech-dispatcherd.service file available so I did systemctl enable
speech-dispatcherd.service and rebooted the system. Invariably every
time 

Re: Orca does not speak

[Jude DaShiell]

I don't know how accessibility on ubuntu command line works or what tool 
To do what the arch downgrade script does, you would have to get a package 
manager to show your installed package version and a a numbered list of 
all other versions.  Then you'd select the version and select whether to 
ignore versions higher than what's installed in the future.  Many times a 
whole group of packages have to be downgraded together in order not to 
break dependencies and in what you'll read below it's a pretty big list 
with respect to pulseaudio.  How all of this is done with apt-get or 
aptitude I never did learn.



From isfe...@gmail.com Thu Aug  4 21:04:12 2016

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:04:05
From: tim 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

I've fixed it! I had to downgrade libpulse, pulseaudio, 
pulseaudio-bluetooth, pulseaudio-zeroconf, pulseaudio-lirc, and 
pulseaudio-gconf from 9 to 8.3 or maybe it's 4, I then removed 
.config/pulseaudioctl and .config/pulse restarted and I have sound! 
thanks all this was really worrying me!




On 08/04/2016 05:14 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Okay, my suggestion here would be first to downgrade libpulse then 
downgrade lightdm unless lightdm also gets downgraded by downgrading 
libpulse.  Hope this helps.  Oh, I forgot if you have 
speech-dispatcher-git on your system try spd-say "hello, world!" and 
see if you get any sound that way.


On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, tim wrote:


Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:56:58
From: tim 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

Still stuck, downgraded lightdm and when attempting to downgrade
pulseaudio, I run in to this warning: downgrading package pulseaudio
(9.0-1 => 8.0-2)
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libpulse=8.0-2", a dependency of "pulseaudio"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable 
dependencies:

 pulseaudio

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
it's strange I can't get speech on anything, but when running mplayer
a filename.mp3 I get sound! so am stuck, and speech dispatcher is at
0.8.4 i believe somewhere around there.  I hope I don't have to
reinstall cause of this. I doubt it but it's puzzling.

On 8/3/16, Jude DaShiell  wrote:
First, alsamixer is being bogarted by pulseaudio.  Probably pamixer 
will

give you better results.  Second, aplay is also bogarted by pulseaudio
so download and use alsaplayer and that should make alsaplayer if all
optional packages get installed capable of playing what aplay used to
play.  Third, I think I found why speech got broken both before and
after lightdm is run for mate or gnome.  My speech-dispatcher-git
package just recently got updated to 0.9.0xxx and I found a
speech-dispatcherd.service file available so I did systemctl enable
speech-dispatcherd.service and rebooted the system. Invariably every
time speech-dispatcherd.service was started it failed.  So no speech
before or after login.  Since /usr/local/share/sounds/purple/login.wav
is on my system, I now have alsaplayer playing that with alsaplayer -q
./login.wav since I moved that to my home directory and it's in my
.bashrc file since I wanted to hear if I got any successful login on
lightdm and haven't heard login.wav play since these last updates.  I
wish I had better news, but that's where things appear to be now.  Oh,
if speech can't get enabled on the talkingarch system and you want to
recover disk space a command like:
sudo -H pacman -Rcsn xorg
should clear the whole graphical user interface and all configurations
from your system.  It doesn't wipe configurations below your home
directory though.  The warning about this is, if you use vlc or mplayer
or emacs you'll need to reinstall those to get your system back to
normal unless maybe the ignore list can be used temporarily.

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, tim wrote:


Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:31:22
From: tim 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

Interestingly, I'm running arch, and I believe lightdm was in the
packages to be upgraded, oddly enough, when I run lspci when chrooted
in from a live system, the autigy card is listed.  I can't run
alsamixer cause i get this message.  [root@sonar /]# alsamixer
No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
[root@sonar /]# everything was fine before this upgrade, and sound
plays just fine with the onboard chip, but I have 0 sounds, nor speech
such as orca, but I can still get to a terminal and issue commands
like beep and commands to test sound so I'm logged in.  You mentioned
lightdm, should I downgrade that and see if it helps? thanks!



On 8/3/16, 

Re: Orca does not speak

[Glenn / Lenny]

yeah, that would be pretty much impossible with no speech.
If I don't get a solution, I don't know what is next.
Maybe the 32 bit install will not do this?
Glenn
- Original Message - 
From: "Jude DaShiell" 
To: "Glenn / Lenny" ; 

Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Orca does not speak


I don't know how accessibility on ubuntu command line works or what tool
To do what the arch downgrade script does, you would have to get a package
manager to show your installed package version and a a numbered list of
all other versions.  Then you'd select the version and select whether to
ignore versions higher than what's installed in the future.  Many times a
whole group of packages have to be downgraded together in order not to
break dependencies and in what you'll read below it's a pretty big list
with respect to pulseaudio.  How all of this is done with apt-get or
aptitude I never did learn.

>From isfe...@gmail.com Thu Aug  4 21:04:12 2016
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:04:05
From: tim 
To: Jude DaShiell 
Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

I've fixed it! I had to downgrade libpulse, pulseaudio,
pulseaudio-bluetooth, pulseaudio-zeroconf, pulseaudio-lirc, and
pulseaudio-gconf from 9 to 8.3 or maybe it's 4, I then removed
.config/pulseaudioctl and .config/pulse restarted and I have sound!
thanks all this was really worrying me!



On 08/04/2016 05:14 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Okay, my suggestion here would be first to downgrade libpulse then
> downgrade lightdm unless lightdm also gets downgraded by downgrading
> libpulse.  Hope this helps.  Oh, I forgot if you have
> speech-dispatcher-git on your system try spd-say "hello, world!" and
> see if you get any sound that way.
>
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, tim wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:56:58
>> From: tim 
>> To: Jude DaShiell 
>> Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
>> Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?
>>
>> Still stuck, downgraded lightdm and when attempting to downgrade
>> pulseaudio, I run in to this warning: downgrading package pulseaudio
>> (9.0-1 => 8.0-2)
>> resolving dependencies...
>> warning: cannot resolve "libpulse=8.0-2", a dependency of "pulseaudio"
>> :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable
>> dependencies:
>>  pulseaudio
>>
>> :: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
>> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
>> it's strange I can't get speech on anything, but when running mplayer
>> a filename.mp3 I get sound! so am stuck, and speech dispatcher is at
>> 0.8.4 i believe somewhere around there.  I hope I don't have to
>> reinstall cause of this. I doubt it but it's puzzling.
>>
>> On 8/3/16, Jude DaShiell  wrote:
>>> First, alsamixer is being bogarted by pulseaudio.  Probably pamixer
>>> will
>>> give you better results.  Second, aplay is also bogarted by pulseaudio
>>> so download and use alsaplayer and that should make alsaplayer if all
>>> optional packages get installed capable of playing what aplay used to
>>> play.  Third, I think I found why speech got broken both before and
>>> after lightdm is run for mate or gnome.  My speech-dispatcher-git
>>> package just recently got updated to 0.9.0xxx and I found a
>>> speech-dispatcherd.service file available so I did systemctl enable
>>> speech-dispatcherd.service and rebooted the system. Invariably every
>>> time speech-dispatcherd.service was started it failed.  So no speech
>>> before or after login.  Since /usr/local/share/sounds/purple/login.wav
>>> is on my system, I now have alsaplayer playing that with alsaplayer -q
>>> ./login.wav since I moved that to my home directory and it's in my
>>> .bashrc file since I wanted to hear if I got any successful login on
>>> lightdm and haven't heard login.wav play since these last updates.  I
>>> wish I had better news, but that's where things appear to be now.  Oh,
>>> if speech can't get enabled on the talkingarch system and you want to
>>> recover disk space a command like:
>>> sudo -H pacman -Rcsn xorg
>>> should clear the whole graphical user interface and all configurations
>>> from your system.  It doesn't wipe configurations below your home
>>> directory though.  The warning about this is, if you use vlc or mplayer
>>> or emacs you'll need to reinstall those to get your system back to
>>> normal unless maybe the ignore list can be used temporarily.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, tim wrote:
>>>
 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:31:22
 From: tim 
 To: Jude DaShiell 
 Cc: supp...@sonargnulinux.com
 Subject: Re: [Support] No sound after update?

 Interestingly, I'm running arch, and I believe lightdm was in the
 packages to be upgraded, oddly enough, when I run lspci when 

Re: making an ISO image

[Jude DaShiell]

When making isos, you supply a trunk directory ending with the slash 
character and understand all subdirectories below that trunk directory 
will be included in that iso.  I've never tried that with dd.  I've used 
a cdburn script that was put up on the speakup e-mail list several years 
ago to make isos.


This may help I was trying for script improvements and I hope I cleaned 
all of the errors I made out of it for you:


#!/usr/bin/env bash
# file: cdburn - General-purpose CD burner script using cdrecord and mkisofs
notes() {
echo "0) edit dev on line 35 to point to cdrom"
echo "1) recursive copying copies all of typed directory and everything"
echo "below that typed directory into an iso image you have been warned."
echo "2) before choosing 2 on menu put disk in burner."
echo "works better that way."
echo "3) tab key works in script same as at bash prompt."
echo "4) enter anything but (1, 2, n, or x) on menu gets immediate bash prompt."
echo -e "\a\c"
echo "hit enter to return to menu->"
read CHOICE
}

make_iso1() {
echo
echo -n "Enter name of top directory for recursive copying: "
read INPUT
echo -n "Enter name of ISO file image: "
read ISOFILE
echo -n "Enter volume label: "
read VOLID
sync
sync
sudo -H genisoimage -v -r -J -V $VOLID -o $ISOFILE $INPUT
echo -e "\a\c"
echo "hit enter to return to menu->"
read CHOICE
}

write_data1() {
echo -n "Enter name of ISO file: "
read ISOFILE
sync
sync
sudo -H wodim -v -sao fs=8m $ISOFILE
sync
sync
]; fi
eject
echo -e "\a\c"
echo "hit enter to return to menu->"
read CHOICE
}
bail() {
echo ""
echo "Exitting CD burner script!"
exit 0
}
# Main portion
CHOICE=""
while [ "$CHOICE" = "" ] ; do
echo "CD Burner Main Menu"
echo ""
echo "1 - Build ISO image for single session CD"
echo "2 - Burn a single session data CD"
echo "n - read notes"
echo "X - Exit"
echo ""
echo -n "Enter choice: "
read CHOICE
case "$CHOICE" in
1)
make_iso1
;;
2)
write_data1
;;
n)
notes
;;
x)
bail
;;
esac
done
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Glenn / 
Lenny wrote:



Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:01:10
From: Glenn / Lenny 
To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: making an ISO image

Hi,
I have been trying several different programs including the DD command, and 
either the program seems inaccessible with Orca, or I was not able to place my 
image to be, into another drive.
I am running Ubuntu from a live version on an 8GB card.
I have a bootable USB 16GB thumb drive that I want to make into an ISO image on 
/dev/sda2.
/dev/sda2 is where my old Ubuntu lives, and I cannot boot to, as grub got 
messed up, and I just fixed the MBR so I could at least boot into Windows on 
that system.
On a side note, I tried fixing GRUB with no luck, so I will just get a larger 
drive and reinstall everything, and copy out  files from that drive when I 
replace it.
In the meantime, if I do get GRUB working again, this making an ISO image would 
be easier, because in one program I was using, it would only allow me to make 
an ISO of the USB drive into a directory of this live boot disk, which is only 
8GB.
The boot disk I am wanting to make a copy of is /dev/sdb
So with DD, I tried:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda2/home/Downloads
And I even tried it directly into /dev/sda2
and I tried all commands with giving the ISO a file name at the end, like 
/dev/sda2/usb-image.iso
I tried it with acetoneiso and it gave me the same errors as DD did.
I tried k3b and genisoimage, and a couple others.
I would even write it to a folder on /sda1 if possible, which is an NTFS 
partition.

Thanks for any ideas.
Glenn


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