I made the change described in Post # 5 ( I changed the value for RUN_SPEECHD to yes) and my system hung on boot. I don't know why but I was able via recovery mode to change the setting back to "no" and then my system was able to boot.
I am using a DELL GX270 with UBUNTU 9.02. Paddy -- speech-dispatcher fails to open in Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229184 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs