12/5/2010 build espeakup-amd64.iso results

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Jude DaShiell, le Tue 07 Dec 2010 01:19:45 -0500, a écrit :
> When the system rebooted, I 
> got prompted to log in so logged in as the user account and everything 
> went silent.

I guess the speech engine was festival?  There is an issue with it: the
festival instance started for gdm doesn't get killed by bonobo.  The
gnome maintainers have demoted the dependency to just install espeak by
default, this should be available within a couple of weeks, in any case
for squeeze.  As a workaround, just purge the festival package.

> Attempting to log in as root invariably resulted in 
> authentication failure.

That is the expected behavior at the gdm login prompt.

> The desktop installation also threw 
> lots of exceptions spoken by the litetalk speech synthesizer on the way to 
> a boot up.

Just to make sure: how much memory do you have?  You should report the
text of these exception, else we'd need to use divination to be able to
fix them.

Samuel