[Tts-project] Bug#948679: speech-dispatcher: doesn't start, first due to /var/run/…/cache/… then Can't bind local socket

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: speech-dispatcher
Version: 0.9.1-3
Severity: important

I installed orca to test something, but it doesn’t read out anything.


Following https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Speech-Dispatcher
I edited the config file and tried to stop and start it:

# /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start
Starting Speech Dispatcher: speech-dispatcherln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/run/speech-dispatcher/.cache/speech-dispatcher/log': No such file or directory


Creating that as root leads to:

# /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start
Starting Speech Dispatcher: speech-dispatcher[Sat Jan 11 21:20:08 2020 : 170553] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.9.1 starting
Fatal error [speechd.c:849]:Can't bind local socket

The local socket appears to be in the filesystem, since after…

# chown -R speech-dispatcher /var/run/speech-dispatcher/

… it starts:

# /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start
Starting Speech Dispatcher: speech-dispatcher[Sat Jan 11 21:23:59 2020 : 214754] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.9.1 starting
.

This is likely too over-zealous, though…


Going on further (no sound output), the logs aren’t happy:

= dummy.log
Error opening configuration file '/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/dummy.conf'
 Sat Jan 11 21:27:33 2020 [275613] ALSA: Closing ALSA device
 Sat Jan 11 21:27:33 2020 [275702] ALSA: ALSA closed.
= generic.log
Error opening configuration file '/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/generic.conf'
 Sat Jan 11 21:27:33 2020 [277118] ALSA: Closing ALSA device
 Sat Jan 11 21:27:33 2020 [277214] ALSA: ALSA closed.
= mary-generic.log
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/mary-generic.conf:33: Missing argument to option 'GenericPunctNone'
 Sat Jan 11 21:27:33 2020 [277118] ALSA: Closing ALSA device
 Sat Jan 11 21:27:33 2020 [277214] ALSA: ALSA closed.

Line 33 reads:
   33 GenericPunctNone ""

This seems to be not liked.

Commenting out that line fixes this issue…

root at tglase-nb:/var/log/speech-dispatcher # cat mary-generic.log                                                
 Sat Jan 11 21:30:19 2020 [279375] ALSA: Closing ALSA device
 Sat Jan 11 21:30:19 2020 [279475] ALSA: ALSA closed.

… but still, no sound.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers buildd-unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher depends on:
ii  adduser                          3.118
ii  init-system-helpers              1.57
ii  libc6                            2.29-7
ii  libdotconf0                      1.3-0.3
ii  libglib2.0-0                     2.62.4-1
ii  libltdl7                         2.4.6-11
ii  libsndfile1                      1.0.28-6
ii  libspeechd2                      0.9.1-3
ii  lsb-base                         11.1.0
ii  speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins  0.9.1-3

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher recommends:
pn  pulseaudio                   <none>
pn  sound-icons                  <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng  <none>

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher suggests:
pn  espeak                      <none>
pn  libttspico-utils            <none>
pn  mbrola                      <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-cicero    <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-doc-cs    <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-espeak    <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-festival  <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-flite     <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf changed:
LogLevel  3
LogDir  "default"
DefaultVolume 100
AudioOutputMethod "alsa"
DefaultModule espeak-ng
Include "clients/*.conf"


-- no debconf information