you really do not want to upgrade to alsa-lib 1.1.2

[Jude DaShiell]

Very likely, espeak was crashing just on console use with command line 
interface over here.

On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, Mike Ray wrote:

> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 07:12:23
> From: Mike Ray <mike at raspberryvi.org>
> To: speakup at linux-speakup.org
> Subject: Re: you really do not want to upgrade to alsa-lib 1.1.2
> 
>
> Could this be what is causing the sd_espeak module of speech-dispatcher
> to regularly crash and be unloaded when using speech-dispatcher set to
> 'AudioOutputMethod "alsa' ?
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On 09/08/2016 11:58, Chris Brannon wrote:
>> Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I was ready to release TalkingArch this month, just a little
>>> late. Looks like I may need to hold off until next month. Is this a
>>> mostly correct assessment, or is my build from Saturday OK to continue
>>> the testing and sign-off process? Thanks for the heads-up.
>> 
>> I don't know which package your Saturday build contains.
>> When did 1.1.2 hit [extra]?  It was probably sometime close to then.
>> If you've got alsa-lib 1.1.1 or older, you should be good to go.
>> 
>> So I've spent the best part of 3 hours tonight looking at the espeak
>> source.  I'm reasonably convinced there's a race condition in the audio
>> output code, even though it looks like plenty of care was taken to
>> guarantee that this couldn't happen.  Or maybe I'm seeing
>> things that aren't really there, and there's no race after all.
>> Sometimes I feel like the most phony of amateurs.
>> Anyway what I think happened is that a change to the alsa library has
>> done something to trigger a race condition that has been around for a
>> long time.
>> 
>> -- Chris
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