Comment 3 for bug 615019

Hello everybody,
I have this bug too on Xubuntu 12.04.

The problem is:
"Unable to open the softsynth device: Device or resource busy"

What is "softsynth" ?
How i can fix the problem?

Thank you for your time.

# apt-get install espeakup
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
I seguenti pacchetti NUOVI saranno installati:
  espeakup
0 aggiornati, 1 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
È necessario scaricare 16,0 kB di archivi.
Dopo quest'operazione, verranno occupati 82,9 kB di spazio su disco.
Scaricamento di:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe espeakup amd64 1:0.71-6 [16,0 kB]
Recuperati 16,0 kB in 0s (40,9 kB/s)
Selezionato il pacchetto espeakup non precedentemente selezionato.
(Lettura del database... 319771 file e directory attualmente installati.)
Estrazione di espeakup (da .../espeakup_1%3a0.71-6_amd64.deb)...
Elaborazione dei trigger per ureadahead...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Elaborazione dei trigger per man-db...
Configurazione di espeakup (1:0.71-6)...
 * Starting Speakup/espeak connector espeakup Unable to open the softsynth device: Device or resource busy
                                                                                                                    [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
dpkg: errore nell'elaborare espeakup (--configure):
 il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

$ uname -a
Linux user-desktop 3.2.0-44-generic #69-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 16 17:35:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -l | grep espeak
ii espeak 1.46.02-0ubuntu1 Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
ii espeak-data 1.46.02-0ubuntu1 Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: speech data files
ii espeak-gui 0.4-2 graphical user interface for eSpeak
ii espeakedit 1.46.02-1 Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer - editor
iF espeakup 1:0.71-6 Connector between speakup kernel modules and espeak
ii gespeaker 0.7-3 GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola
ii libespeak-dev 1.46.02-0ubuntu1 Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: development files
ii libespeak1 1.46.02-0ubuntu1 Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: shared library
ii libperlspeak-perl 2.01-1 Perl Module for text to speech with festival, espeak, cepstral
ii python-espeak 0.4-0ubuntu1 Python bindings for eSpeak
ii stardict-plugin-espeak 3.0.1-9.1 International dictionary - eSpeak TTS plugin