Pidgin-Festival plugin Works for one login, but is broken thereafter

[Lonnie Lee Best]

Binary package hint: pidgin-festival

To setup pidgin-festival, I followed these instructions:
http://www.howtoadvice.com/ListenToIM

After a reboot, everything worked fine.

However, now it no longer Speaks my instant messages.

The only thing I know, that may be causing this, is that I now run "jovie" as a startup application.

I'm suspecting , that since both (pidgin-festival and jovie) use festival, on the back end, which ever tries to use festival first get to use it at the exclusion of anything else that might want to use it. I'm not sure.

Here's how I have Jovie setup:
http://www.howtoadvice.com/UbuntuTalk

You should be able to reproduce this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pidgin-festival 2.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 4 11:17:26 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin-festival

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ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: pidgin-festival 2.4-2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-05 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

I just disabled jovie, from running as a start-up app. Then I rebooted.

The pidgin-festival plugin, is still not working. So, this is probably unrelated to having run jovie as a startup application.

Like I said, this worked fine for one session, but doesn't work anymore (even though the Festival plugin is still enabled within Pidgin).

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

Now that I've upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 beta2, everything seems to be working ok again.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

apport information

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

Again, I can only speak for myself, but it is working for me now that I've upgraded.

By comparing my current Dependencies.txt attachment to my previous one I notice these discrepancies:

 10.10 Used:
 festival 1:2.0.95~beta-2ubuntu1
 pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2

 12.04 Uses:
 festival 1:2.1~release-1ubuntu2
 pidgin 1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1