greetings

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:10:07PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Dear Chuck,
> 
> You missed some discussion on this a few weeks ago.
> 
> To sum up, it’s a Portaudio bug which has been noticed thanks to an Alsa upgrade, and there is a temporary workaround. All you need to do is edit “espeakup.service,” or create a drop-in snippet. In the [Service] section, put the line
> Environment=LIBASOUND_THREAD_SAFE=0
> 
> Case is important here, and the way I did it was to just do “sudo systemctl edit espeakup.service.” I hope this helps.
> Best,
> Zack.
> > On Aug 31, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I've been away for some time, but have just resubscribed.
> > I currently use ArchLinux on a Dell Optiplex 780, refurbished, from Amazon.
> > Also still stubbornly using only command line interface,
> > just can't warm up to a GUI.
> > 
> > I'm Currently having an issue involving random failures of speech,
> > and am able to restore speech by issuing two systemctl commands,
> > one to stop espeakup.service, and the next to start it again.
> > How can I get further information to narrow the problem down to
> > espeakup, or speakup, or espeak? Recovery from the  failures is reliable,
> > but I'd rather find and fix the cause.
> > 
> > Chuck
> > 
> > 
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Dear Zach,

I applied the steps you suggested, which resulted in the creation of the file:

/etc/systemd/system/espeakup.service.d/override.conf

with the single line you indicated should be added.
However, I still get the speech failures, even after rebooting. Have I overlooked something?

Chuck
The Moon is New