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

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

Hi,

See if: ps aux|grep speechd-up 
returns something. Then, try:
/usr/bin/speechd-up 

and tell me the result.

Regards,

JPM

On dimanche 19 mai 2013 à 20:55:59 (-0400), Joseph Norton wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Sorry for the confusion.  I do have a file called "speechd-up" in /etc/init.d.  
> 
> Here is what happened after I did /etc/init.d/speechd-up start
> 
> Starting Interface between speakup and speech-dispatcher : speechd-up[Sun May 19 20:52:57 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!
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> On May 19, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <mengualjeanphi at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > 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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> >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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> > Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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