Is speechd-up broken in debian 7 or do I need to do something not obvious

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

Hi,

Can you try if your /etc/init.d contains speechd-up and, if yes, do, as
root: /etc/init.d/speechd-up start. or restart instead of start?

Tell me what's displayed.

Thanks,

Regards,

JPM

On dimanche 19 mai 2013 à 09:05:44 (-0400), Joseph Norton wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> In Debian 7, speakup is using espeakup to run.
> 
> I'm trying to change to speechd-up so I can run toxin with it.
> 
> Here's what I'm doing:
> 
> First, I do an apt-get install speech-dispatcher
> 
> Everything seems to work ok.  I edited /etc/default/speech-dispatcher to say "RUN=yes"
> 
> Then, i did apt-get install speechd-up.
> 
> I got a bunch of errors.  Here's what happened (see below).  Any ideas on how to make the system happy?
> 
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   speechd-up
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 42.4 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 111 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian/ wheezy/main speechd-up i386 0.5~20110719-2 [42.4 kB]
> Fetched 42.4 kB in 0s (62.5 kB/s)
> Selecting previously unselected package speechd-up.
> (Reading database ... 26552 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking speechd-up (from .../speechd-up_0.5~20110719-2_i386.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for install-info ...
> Setting up speechd-up (0.5~20110719-2) ...
> Starting Interface between speakup and speech-dispatcher : speechd-up[Sun May 19 09:02:17 2013] speechd: Configuration has been read from "/etc/speechd-up.conf"
> Starting speechd-up...
> To work, speechd-up needs speakup and speakup_soft modules.
> They are loaded automatically. If you don't want, type
> rmmod speakup speakup_soft
>  failed!
> invoke-rc.d: initscript speechd-up, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing speechd-up (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  speechd-up
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
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