Re: No speech in the alpha Installer, and speech freeze in Bookworm

john doe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/22/25 01:26, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:
> Hi, I've tried to start installing Debian from NetInst alpha 1 for 
> Trixie, but there was no speech at all. Once I get the system installed, 
> I'm willing to help you diagnose the problem.


Part of this assumes that you were able to install Debian.

All the logs are in '/var/log/installer', do something like `grep -i 
missing syslog`.
Do the same with "error" as well or better still "audio".

> 
> In the meantime, I downloaded NetInst for Bookworm 12.10, and there was 
> speech this time. I started preparing to install, but when I finished 
> network configuration, speech suddenly stopped. I changed to another 
> shell and tried to restart it, 

Do you mean that it was speeking in other console ("shell")?

> but no commands worked. I tried things 
> like kill -9 espeakup, systemctl stop espeakup, systemctl start 
> espeakup, espeak-ng "test", but none talked.
> 
> Then I rebooted, and before starting installation again, I changed to 
> another shell to make some tests before speech crashed again. I 

Look in '/var/logs' to see what's going on in the logs, in particular 
why it crashes.

Note that the "installer" subdirectory is the "logs" subdirectory during 
installation.

-- 
John Doe
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