greetings

[Zachary Kline]

Chuck,

I should have been more clear. The way the drop-in snippets work is to add bits to various sections of the files they complement.

So you also need to put 
[Service]
above your single line of additional code. Another “systemctl edit,” should do it.

Hope this helps,
Zack.
> On Aug 31, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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