A couple problems

[Willem van der Walt]

festival -server&


On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, guy schlosser wrote:

> Hey there Michael, thanks for the response.  I don't have a program 
> called start-stop-daemon. I did a whereis, and got nothing.  Any 
> other way to start festival in the background?
> 
> Thanks again in advance for the help,
> 
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> At 03:54 AM 10/31/2006, you wrote:
> 
> > > Hello,
> >For espeak, if compiling, you probably need the devel rpm for portaudio.
> >
> >For festival, just executing "festival --server" will not return to the
> >shell, so scripts cannot continue. The solution is to use start-stop-daemon
> >starting festival in the background, if festival was from a rpm you probably
> >have a script installed in the startup script directory, you just need that
> >to be executed on start up (I don't know how you do this on fedora).
> >
> >From
> >Michael Whapples
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Guy Schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:25 PM
> > > Subject: A couple problems
> > >
> > >
> > >> Hello all:
> > >>
> > >> I've got a couple problems and need a little assistance figuring out
> > >> what's going on.  First, I got my Fedora core 6 installed without
> > >> problems.  I installed speech-dispatcher from the tar balls at
> > >> www.freebsoft.org, and all seems to have went OK there.  Here's where I'm
> > >> having trouble.  1., when I try to compile Espeak after doing yum install
> > >> portaudio, I get make errors that say "no definition for thread join and
> > >> thread cancel."  Lastly, I put the following lines in my rc.local file to
> > >> get speech-dispatcher running, and at least festival for now.
> > >> festival --server
> > >> speech-dispatcher.
> > >>
> > >> Now, when I boot, I get the message from festival that says that the
> > >> server started, and then I don't get to the login prompt.  Is there
> > >> something I should have put after festival --server?  Or, is there a
> > >> better way to start festival and speech-dispatcher on boot?  Furthermore,
> > >> how can I regain access to my box?  Do I have to telnet in from another
> > >> machine?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Guy
> > >>
> > >>
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