Bugzilla Bug 179290

I am reporting a bug in the way the speak-up patch (the one in
gentoo-sources-2.6.21) works with festival, speechd,speechd-up,
speech-dispatcher, when I have installed the programs festival, speechd,
speech-dispatcher and speechd-up. (Yes, this is masked, and in testing, and all
sorts -- can we work on it anyway please, I think it should be MADE to work :)
)

Now, a curious thing happens.
speechd-up does not start from the init-script. 
But festival,speechd and speech-dispatcher do. They work fine.
If one types a
/etc/init.d/speechd-up restart
then the app will restart fine, and speech will start, but to do this you have
to be able to see the keybd, and get in as root, and use the rc restart. Not
much use for my half-blind mother. I would like to see this package made
somehow stable, and working. If there is noone else, then consider this an
assistance offer, but... I will need some help to understand Gentoo rc system.

Best,
sonofthejedi 

(output of `emerge --info` follows)

Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r2,
2.6.21-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2400+
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 08 May 2007 00:20:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.32
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.gg3.net/ http://gentoo.channelx.biz/
ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/Gentoo/ ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo
http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dfx 3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa arts audiofile
bashlogger berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga
doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg firefox
flac fortran fpx gcj gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtkhtml
hal icon iconv ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k justify kde
kerberos ldap leim libclamav libg++ mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mysql
ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png povray pppd
python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session
sndfile spell spl sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs winbind wmf x86 xml xorg xprint
xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx cmipci usb-usx2y" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw
asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa
lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
CAMERAS="adc65 agfa-cl20 aox barbie canon casio clicksmart310 digigr8 digita
dimera directory enigma13 fuji gsmart300 hp215 iclick jamcam jd11 kodak konica
largan lg_gsm mars minolta mustek panasonic pccam300 pccam600 polaroid ptp2
ricoh samsung sierra sipix smal sonix sonydscf1 sonydscf55 soundvision spca50x
sq905 stv0674 stv0680 sx330z template toshiba" ELIBC="glibc"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz
cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vga"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

There is now a possible fix submitted for the speechd-up startup script. 
Please re-emerge speechd-up and let me know if this fix works.

Thanks much.

Created an attachment (id=120935) [details]
Set of notes on tests conducted on new versions of speechd-up/speech-dispatcher

As requested, tested things under the new versions and letting you know what
works and doesn't. Quite a few variables. Not sure how thorough I have been,
but I feel a HOWTO growing. More tests needed. Ideas?

I have tested the startup script when using espeak as the tts engine.  This
works well.  Many people are now replacing festival, flite, etc with speakup
because it is small and fast.  So, that is the primary software speech engine
we are supporting, and we recommend that you use it.  Thanks much for your
assistance.