say does not make a sound
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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epos (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: epos
When installing epos and running say from the command line, no sound is generated. Erroneous default config or missing dependency?
How to replicate: on a freshly updated 9.10 install, sudo aptitude install epos then
$ say Test
tes%t^######T
Could not open localsound device, error 2
Client side error: Could not set up a stream
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 17 22:23:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
Package: epos 1:2.5.37-8
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: epos
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
It seems you need to run the eposd daemon to get the epos version of 'say' to say anything.
Dave