Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

[Michael Stone]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:06:02AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> Michael,
>
> The activity logs contain no clues.  Really no message at all.
>
> The Activity window is present but non-responsive.  You can switch to the 
> main screen using F3 (the XO equivalent activity-switching key) but you 
> cannot shut down the application there.  When you switch back to Read 
> Etexts the screen is blank, as if something is preventing it from 
> repainting.  So the app doesn't bail out, it just hangs.  I can use other 
> activities like the log viewer and the terminal no problem.

Well, from that description, it sounds to me like your UI thread (which
is probably your only thread) entering an infinite (or simply very long)
loop or is blocked on something that never happens.

Tools that I use to diagnose this sort of problem include strace, gdb,
and printf-debugging. (Recall that strace and gdb can be attached to a
running process.) 

(Also, let us know if you need more assistance.)

Regards,

Michael