Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2025-01-07 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 6 Jan 2025, Frank Carmickle wrote: Thank you for waking up this thread, again. Am I understanding you correctly, that you are not having this issue in bullseye? Correct, I am not. Cheers, Geoff.

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2025-01-06 Thread Frank Carmickle
Thank you for waking up this thread, again. Am I understanding you correctly, that you are not having this issue in bullseye? Thank you, --FC > On Jan 3, 2025, at 13:52, Geoff Shang wrote: > > Hi, > > Was a bug ever filed on this issue? > > If not, I can open one, but I don't really underst

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2025-01-03 Thread K0LNY ??
Hi Geoff, Can you install espeak-ng on Buster? Perhaps it will be more reliable than espeak. Glenn - Original Message - From: "Geoff Shang" To: "Debian Accessibility Team" Sent: Friday, January 3, 2025 12:52 PM Subject: Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2025-01-03 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, K0LNY ?? wrote: Can you install espeak-ng on Buster? Perhaps it will be more reliable than espeak. I'm already using espeak-ng. However, as I recall, the issue was determined to be with espeakup, not espeak-ng. Certainly, killing espeakup and having it respawn clears th

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2025-01-03 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Was a bug ever filed on this issue? If not, I can open one, but I don't really understand the technical stuff as much as I would like to. But I would like to see it fixed. This happens to me on a regular basis and is very annoying, especially during high priority issue investigations a

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-03-15 Thread Frank Carmickle
Waking up this thread. Samuel and others. Please let us know what we can do to help get this one sorted. Thanks so much. --FC > On Jan 23, 2024, at 08:20, Geoff Shang wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 15:04:22 +0200, a ecrit: >>> I

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-23 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 6 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 15:04:22 +0200, a ecrit: I updated the core file at http://quitelikely.com/gcore Thanks, that's indeed still the same situation: an alsa-lib mutex is said to be held by a thread which is not executing alsa-lib code.

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-06 Thread Frank Carmickle
Samuel, I know that I don't have anything interesting about my alsa config. I'd try your new espeak packages but I'm on arm64. My bookworm system was built from your modified debian installer. I have just built a trixie arm64 machine today, if that would be more helpful. Best, --FC

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-06 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 6 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 15:04:22 +0200, a ecrit: I updated the core file at http://quitelikely.com/gcore Thanks, that's indeed still the same situation: an alsa-lib mutex is said to be held by a thread which is not executing alsa-lib code.

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 15:04:22 +0200, a ecrit: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 14:42:29 +0200, a ecrit: > > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > > > Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 14:26:49 +0200, a ecrit: > >

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 14:42:29 +0200, a ecrit: On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 14:26:49 +0200, a ecrit: On Wed, 3 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: This confirms that "the impossible" has h

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 14:42:29 +0200, a ecrit: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 14:26:49 +0200, a ecrit: > > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > > > This confirms that "the impossible" has happened :) > > > > >

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Geoff Shang wrote: On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 14:26:49 +0200, a ecrit: On Wed, 3 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: This confirms that "the impossible" has happened :) The alsa-lib lock reports a mutex being held by a thr

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 14:26:49 +0200, a ecrit: On Wed, 3 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: This confirms that "the impossible" has happened :) The alsa-lib lock reports a mutex being held by a thread that is not actually running alsa-lib

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: This confirms that "the impossible" has happened :) The alsa-lib lock reports a mutex being held by a thread that is not actually running alsa-lib functions. I however noticed that espeak-ng uses pcaudiolib without any locking, and pcaudiolib is defin

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Geoff Shang, le mar. 02 janv. 2024 15:33:20 +0200, a ecrit: > On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Geoff Shang, le lun. 01 janv. 2024 18:39:33 +0200, a ecrit: > > > On Sun, 31 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Frank Carmickle, le ven. 29 déc. 2023 20:46:2

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-02 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Geoff Shang, le lun. 01 janv. 2024 18:39:33 +0200, a ecrit: On Sun, 31 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: Frank Carmickle, le ven. 29 déc. 2023 20:46:21 -0500, a ecrit: On Dec 29, 2023, at 15:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: #4 0x7fbedbb1a006

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Geoff Shang, le lun. 01 janv. 2024 18:39:33 +0200, a ecrit: > On Sun, 31 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le ven. 29 déc. 2023 20:46:21 -0500, a ecrit: > > > On Dec 29, 2023, at 15:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > #4 0x7fbedbb1a006 in snd_pcm_state () from >

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 31 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Frank Carmickle, le ven. 29 déc. 2023 20:46:21 -0500, a ecrit: On Dec 29, 2023, at 15:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: #4 0x7fbedbb1a006 in snd_pcm_state () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2 No symbol table info available. #9 0x

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frank Carmickle, le ven. 29 déc. 2023 20:46:21 -0500, a ecrit: > On Dec 29, 2023, at 15:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Geoff Shang, le jeu. 21 déc. 2023 19:39:42 +0200, a ecrit: > >> On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > This is showing that it's alsa-lib which gets stuck. I trie

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Dec 29, 2023, at 15:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Geoff Shang, le jeu. 21 déc. 2023 19:39:42 +0200, a ecrit: >> On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >>> thread apply all bt full >>> >>> :) >> >> OK, you got it. >> >> This produced 20 kb of output, so I've attached it

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Geoff Shang, le jeu. 21 déc. 2023 19:39:42 +0200, a ecrit: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > thread apply all bt full > > > > :) > > OK, you got it. > > This produced 20 kb of output, so I've attached it. Let me know if anyone > wants it included in the message instea

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-21 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: thread apply all bt full :) OK, you got it. This produced 20 kb of output, so I've attached it. Let me know if anyone wants it included in the message instead. Because of the amount of output and the fact that I had to do it without speech, I

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Geoff Shang, le jeu. 21 déc. 2023 18:50:52 +0200, a ecrit: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > All we need now is the full > > > > thread apply bt full > > > > to get the most available information. > > Earlier you said to use > > thread apply all bt > > Which do you want? th

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-21 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: All we need now is the full thread apply bt full to get the most available information. Earlier you said to use thread apply all bt Which do you want? Cheers, Geoff.

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 21 déc. 2023 08:39:31 -0500, a ecrit: > On Dec 20, 2023, at 18:34, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > James Addison, le mer. 20 déc. 2023 23:03:33 +, a ecrit: > >> sthibault: do you think this could be related to > >> https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/pull/48 ? >

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Dec 20, 2023, at 18:34, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > James Addison, le mer. 20 déc. 2023 23:03:33 +, a ecrit: >> sthibault: do you think this could be related to >> https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/pull/48 ? > > Possibly. Testing would give a definite answer. > It took me a c

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
James Addison, le mer. 20 déc. 2023 23:03:33 +, a ecrit: > sthibault: do you think this could be related to > https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/pull/48 ? Possibly. Testing would give a definite answer. > > > It took me a couple of goes, and I lost speech entirely both times (not > >

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-20 Thread James Addison
sthibault: do you think this could be related to https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/pull/48 ? (the reason for my guess: it is the only recent change within the espeak_thread function - and a buffer-full / wait condition feels like something that could occur semi-repeatably and could have ed

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-20 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Dec 20, 2023, at 13:21, Geoff Shang wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, James Addison wrote: > >> To do that, the first step is to enable a sources.list entry for debug >> symbol packages, then to install the gdb and espeakup-dbgsym packages, >> and then after the espeakup process stops speak

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-20 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, James Addison wrote: To do that, the first step is to enable a sources.list entry for debug symbol packages, then to install the gdb and espeakup-dbgsym packages, and then after the espeakup process stops speaking, to attach the gdb debugger to locate where it got stuck by r

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-11-28 Thread James Addison
l Message- > From: James Addison > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2023 3:04 PM > To: Geoff Shang > Cc: Frank Carmickle ; Debian Accessibility Team > ; ja...@jasonjgw.net > Subject: Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64 > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 10:46, Geoff Shang

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-11-27 Thread Frank Carmickle
nt: Monday, November 27, 2023 3:04 PM > To: Geoff Shang > Cc: Frank Carmickle ; Debian Accessibility Team > ; ja...@jasonjgw.net > Subject: Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64 > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 10:46, Geoff Shang wrote: >> >> On Mon, 24 Apr 2023, Jam

RE: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-11-27 Thread tommym2006
works better? Tom -Original Message- From: James Addison Sent: Monday, November 27, 2023 3:04 PM To: Geoff Shang Cc: Frank Carmickle ; Debian Accessibility Team ; ja...@jasonjgw.net Subject: Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64 On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 10:46, Geoff Shang wrote: &

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-11-27 Thread James Addison
On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 10:46, Geoff Shang wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2023, James Addison wrote: > > > 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 t

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-09-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023, Chevelle wrote:     I'm using AMD64, but sometimes I can find the PID for pipewire-pulse with 'ps ax'.  Then enter kill -SIGHUP Suddenly it will start working again. It might be worth a try. I'm not running pipewire. This is a console-only VM running under VMWare Pl

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-08-29 Thread Chevelle
    I'm using AMD64, but sometimes I can find the PID for pipewire-pulse with 'ps ax'.  Then enter kill -SIGHUP Suddenly it will start working again. It might be worth a try. On 8/28/23 05:46, Geoff Shang wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2023, James Addison wrote: Working towards a better backtrac

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-08-28 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 24 Apr 2023, James Addison wrote: 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. The packages ar

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-08-18 Thread Chevelle
    I have the AMD64 build of bookworm, but I have had it stop speaking.  Sometimes if I have a graphical session running, then switch to a speakup console, it is very slow to respond.  I wrote a simple bash script like this: #!/usr/bin/bash sleep 5 ls I start that in the terminal with ORC

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-08-18 Thread Frank Carmickle
Greetings, I've been living with this for the last sixish months, and it's annoying. I have a console where I can just up arrow and hit enter for `killall -1 espeakup` I would love to see this get fixed but I've gotten nowhere with debugging it. I haven't tried Sam's recommendation of having a

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-08-17 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I just updated to Bookworm on my work VM running under VMWare 17 under Windows 11 and am experiencing the same problem. This was not happening under Bullseye. The only other thing that I can add to what has already been described in this thread is that using conventional Debian method

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-30 Thread James Addison
On Sun, 30 Apr 2023 at 01:10, James Addison wrote: > > I don't have much to (bug)report here yet, but have begun using > espeakup as a screen reader via Orca in GNOME. CPU usage on the > machine seemed relatively high, and at times text input became > unresponsive (both in-browser, where both win

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-29 Thread James Addison
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 at 10:20, James Addison wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 23:38, James Addison wrote: > > > > On Apr 20, 2023, at 08:47:11, Jason White wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps the following would also be worth trying: > > > > > > Rebuild Espeakup with compiler optimizations turned off and

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-25 Thread James Addison
On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 23:38, James Addison wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2023, at 08:47:11, Jason White 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 bac

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-24 Thread James Addison
On Apr 20, 2023, at 08:47:11, Jason White 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 gener

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-20 Thread Jason White
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.

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-15 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Apr 15, 2023, at 08:25, James Addison wrote: > > > If you're using systemd to manage services on those hosts: does the > system journal indicate any failures/restarts of the espeakup service? No. Systemd only notices when I send the HUP signal. Even when I run it in the foreground, and the

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-15 Thread James Addison
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 18:27, Frank Carmickle wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2023, at 13:19, James Addison wrote: > > That could be a useful clue. Which of those three systems, if any, > > are multi-processor? > > I suspected such a thing and so today I have been running the qemu arm64 > system with a s

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-13 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Frank" == Frank Carmickle writes: >> You could play around with adding/subtracting pulseaudio/pipewire >> within the guest and different approaches for how the emulator >> talks to the host OS sound stack to explore whether this is the >> case. Frank> I have as minima

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Apr 13, 2023, at 14:26, Sam Hartman wrote: > >> "Frank" == Frank Carmickle writes: > >Frank> Good day all, I'm pretty certain now that speech stops when >Frank> doing screen review by character. > >Frank> Does anyone know what would be different about this that >Frank> w

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-13 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Frank" == Frank Carmickle writes: Frank> Good day all, I'm pretty certain now that speech stops when Frank> doing screen review by character. Frank> Does anyone know what would be different about this that Frank> would make this happen? This is just a guess, but you might

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
Good day all, I'm pretty certain now that speech stops when doing screen review by character. Does anyone know what would be different about this that would make this happen? I am on the latest, 0.90-13. Thanks much, --FC

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-11 Thread James Addison
On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 at 21:07, Frank Carmickle wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2023, at 10:49, James Addison wrote: > > > > Yep, bugs with unpredictable timing can be particularly hard to track > > down. I noticed some references to process threads in one of your > > previous messages (the acronym nptl for

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-11 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Apr 11, 2023, at 13:19, James Addison wrote: > That could be a useful clue. Which of those three systems, if any, > are multi-processor? I suspected such a thing and so today I have been running the qemu arm64 system with a single core. Quite unfortunately it still stops speaking. All of the

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-10 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 30, 2023, at 10:49, James Addison wrote: > > Yep, bugs with unpredictable timing can be particularly hard to track > down. I noticed some references to process threads in one of your > previous messages (the acronym nptl for native posix thread library) > and also in the source code: that

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-30 Thread James Addison
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 20:14, Frank Carmickle wrote: > I guess you missed my followup message that it still does stop speaking. I'm > trying to notice as much as I can about the environment when it stops > speaking. I did read that message - it seemed possible to me that configuring a language

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-30 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 29, 2023, at 17:55, James Addison wrote: > > Ok, that's cautiously promising. I guess you missed my followup message that it still does stop speaking. I'm trying to notice as much as I can about the environment when it stops speaking. I do find that it stops speaking mostly when I am na

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-29 Thread James Addison
Ok, that's cautiously promising. The next suggestion is maybe a bit annoying: try undoing or commenting-out the language selection and checking whether the previous error-prone behaviour returns. I haven't been able to figure out why choosing a language in the config file would make a difference

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 29, 2023, at 14:17, Frank Carmickle wrote: > That appears to be a very good question, as when I specify a language at all > it doesn't seem to stop speaking. I hadn't even realized that the system > didn't have a value in the config, /etc/default/espeakup. I'll keep pounding > on it. As

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 29, 2023, at 10:23, James Addison wrote: > > Ok. I'm not sure what to suggest in terms of build changes, so I'm wondering > about other command-line options before learning more about the build. > > Does the problem occur when using different voices and languages? That appears to be a

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-29 Thread James Addison
Ok. I'm not sure what to suggest in terms of build changes, so I'm wondering about other command-line options before learning more about the build. Does the problem occur when using different voices and languages? On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 15:12 Frank Carmickle wrote: > Hello James, > > Thanks for

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello James, Thanks for this. It does not print any information when speaking stops. It does print that it received the hangup signal, which is what I sent to kill the process. What shall we add to a build to gain more insight? Thank you, --FC > On Mar 29, 2023, at 09:52, James Addison

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-29 Thread James Addison
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:31:54 -0400, Frank wrote: > I've reported this before, and I believe we had a fix for it. I just saw it > happen again. This time it's bookworm arm64 . I can't remember what info was > needed to track this down. Let me know what I can do please. Hi Frank, If you run the e

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frank Carmickle, le lun. 20 mars 2023 16:31:54 -0400, a ecrit: > I've reported this before, and I believe we had a fix for it. I don't remember what issue you refer to. Samuel