greetings

[Austin Seraphin]

Thank you so much for your help! I just upgraded my Arch system as well, and started noticing these failures. Good thing I could SSH in from my Mac. The fix seems to help. I’ll try to remember to check back about this. I’ll also go back and read the thread. Thanks again.

> On Aug 31, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Zachary Kline <zkline at speedpost.net> 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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