On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 23:38, James Addison <j...@jp-hosting.net> wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2023, at 08:47:11, Jason White <ja...@jasonjgw.net> wrote: > > > > Perhaps the following would also be worth trying: > > > > Rebuild Espeakup with compiler optimizations turned off and with debug > > symbols enabled. This might produce a beter gdb backtrace if you connect to > > the process when it's failing to generate output. You might also need to > > rebuild Espeak, though. > > Working towards a better backtrace is a good recommendation. I'd also > like to mention that there are existing Debian bookworm debug symbol > packages available for both espeak and espeakup that can avoid the > need to recompile from source.
As a follow-up and partly for my own future reference: there is good documentation about retrieving backtraces on Debian systems at https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace