Speakupconf

[Steve Holmes]

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Yes, I too am getting those errors and William and I talked about a
little while back and seemed to cut down the problem some but I think
you guys are right; speakupconf save seems to be corrupting some of
the saved variables and we end up with zeros in some of them.  In
fact, I just took a look at my full_time variable and it was zero! It
got saved as zero some time back when I did a speakupconf save I
guess.  

Also Cheryl, I think you may be encountering a problem I have on my
system too.  You said you got errors about not finding a subdirectory?
The subshell run by speakupconf expects the UID environment variable
to show 0 in order to operate as root and update
/etc/speakup/<synth>.  If that step fails, you either get an error or
may get an attempt to create a local directory or reference one that
doesn't exist yet.  Does this make sense? speakupconf load expects to
find a .speakup directory in your user folder or if UID is 0 then it
should go out and use /etc/speakup.  Right now I have to "export UID"
at login to get speakupconf to work properly on my Debian box.  This
started happening recently with my Lenny setup before going to
Unstable.  But even under Unstable, this problem still persists for
me.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:51:36PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Yeah, it's a known fact that speakupconf is broken. It seems that
> nobody so far, including myself, can figure out what the problem is.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 03:21:47PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> >
> > I installed speakup-tools in debian unstable.
> >
> > I can change the parameters in speakup with echo but load and save both  
> > give me errors when run as root. I do now have /etc/speakup/ltlk and  
> > full_time shows 40000 there. but here's what happens with load snd save  
> > command.
> >
> > Load:
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
> >
> > save:
> > cp: omitting directory `.'
> > cp: reading `lang': Invalid argument
> > cp: reading `silent': Operation not permitted
> >
> > I looked at the speakupconf man page but this didn't help. btw it lists  
> > save and restore but if i try restore I'm told the options are save and  
> > load.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Cheryl
> >
> > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> >
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> >
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