[Xastir] compiling on SuSE 9.1

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Rick Green wrote:

> Well, 1.3.3 crashed again.
>
> This time, since I was having trouble starting it up, I had started it
> from an xterm rather than using the alt-f2 application launcher.  So when
> it crashed, I was left with the following messages in my xterm:
>
> festival_client: connect to server failed
> Caught Segfault! Xastir will terminate
> Last incoming line was: Port0:N8BJX>APX132,TCPIP*,qAC,N8BJX:=4227.2
> N\08402.8 WhXASTIR-Linux
> 17:01:49
>
> Interesting!  It was the position packet from my own desktop machine which
> crashed the laptop.  I have 'proximity events' enabled in the speech
> config, yet I've never heard a peep from this machine.
>
> Looks like I've got some study to do.  Apparently I need to do more than
> install the festival rpm.  Somewhere there's a 'festival server' that it
> seems I need to configure and start!

Yes, but it shouldn't fall over if it can't be found.  I run that
way all the time and don't have a problem with it crashing.

You can try reconfiguring with "--without-festival" to see if it
runs better for you after that.  I doubt that's where the problem
is, but it's possible.

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