Bug: eSpeak module dies at random

[Lorenzo Taylor]

Using speech-dispatcher with the eSpeak module I get frequent and random 
crashes 
of what seems to be the module itself. I first thought this was only occurring 
on 64-bit dual-core systems or only on my machine, as I hadn't seen it reported 
anywhere. I did confirm with a couple of people on another list, however, that 
these random crashes seem to also happen on netbooks and other 32-bit systems 
as 
well. I am pasting in the relevant parts of speechd.log and espeak.log below.

speechd.log:
[Tue Mar  3 11:23:03 2009 : 753157] speechd:  Error: Broken pipe to module.
[Tue Mar  3 11:23:03 2009 : 764702] speechd:   Output module working status: 0 
(pid:5310)
[Tue Mar  3 11:23:03 2009 : 764739] speechd:  Output module terminated 
abnormally, probably crashed.
[Tue Mar  3 11:23:03 2009 : 764769] speechd:  Error: Output module failed

This seems to tell nothing I didn't already know, except for the fact that it 
appears to indeed be the module crashing and not speech-dispatcher itself. 
However, sometimes the dummy module takes over and other times it doesn't; not 
sure what the problem is here or if it's even related, since when I copied the 
log file to get it pasted in this report, dummy was working. I will send a new 
log if it appears something different is happening when dummy doesn't work.

espeak.log:
E: main loop.c: Assertion 'e->main loop->n_enabled_defer_events > 0' failed at 
pulse/main loop.c:288, function main loop_defer_enable(). Aborting.

Hm. Looks like a problem maybe with pulseaudio, but don't know for sure, since 
it is being written to the log for the eSpeak module. I hope some of this info 
is useful in correcting this problem.

Thanks,
Lorenzo
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