speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy

[Gregory Nowak]

Ok. So I got my fresh wheezy install done in another vm. Turns out
that gnome speaks, but isn't very talkative. What I mean is that for
example ctrl+alt+d gives no indication I'm on the desktop. Pressing
alt+f1 tells me I'm in a menu, but arrowing up/down/left/right gives
no speech. Doesn't matter, since I don't want to migrate to a fresh
install, I want to get this one working.

I did discover that pulse works in the fresh system, including
mplayer, so I cheated. I got rid of /etc/pulse in my upgraded vm, and
replaced it with the one from the fresh vm. I put the original
/usrbin/pulseaudio back into place, set mplayer to use pulse for
output, and rebooted. Mplayer seems to work now with no pulse issues.

Since I now know the gnome issues aren't virtualbox related, I ran
startx as greg on both virtual systems, and compared my
.xsession-errors. Turns out they're similar except for one
difference. On the upgraded system, my .xsession-errors shows this
repeatedly:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail-gnome"

I seem to have all the gail stuff installed though:

i A libgail-3-0                     - GNOME Accessibility
Implementation Library
i A   libgail-common                  - GNOME Accessibility
Implementation Library
i A libgail18                       - GNOME Accessibility
Implementation Library

I did some googling on this, but can't find anything specifically
related to gnome3, and 32-bit wheezy. If I could figure this out, I
can probably get gnome talking. Any thoughts?

Greg


On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 06:30:18PM -0400, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Let us know if you get anything to speak in gnome.  What I did to get
> console things to speak again was to change  /etc/pulse/client.conf to
> autospawn=no but maybe that breaks gnome.
> 


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