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I’ve had a report of the following error when trying to run Oolite 1.73.3 under Ubuntu 9.04:

bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

This appears to be a bug in eSpeak. Possible workarounds:

• Build Oolite from source with the command make libespeak=no (this will disable speech synthesis).
• Enable Bluetooth services in System -> Administration -> Services.

There doesn’t appear to be a way to exclude libespeak when building from pre-made debs. Micha?

I could build debs with and without espeak, but they're either-or. Once the debs are made that's it as they are a binary release, not a source release. I'll see about putting together source debs as well.

We could add a patch and make espeak a command-line or config-file option, or if there's a way to detect when it fails to initialise that Oolite just logs that but continues on anyway with espeak disabled.

The report you've had - does that mean Oolite fails to start completely?

It appears to be a complete failure; the report wasn’t very clear. Check your #oolite history. :-)