The problem is in /etc/hosts (was, Re: Live CD with AT features: first test)

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hello Henrik

it appears that the gnome-speech issue on the live cd is related to the 
/etc/hosts file.  For whatever reason, the one on the live cd is  by 
default, formatted differently than the one that is created for an actual 
installed version of Ubuntu.  I was able to get gnopernicus talking by 
replacing the /etc/hosts on the cd with the following:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 ubuntu.hsd1.mi.comcast.net. ubuntu

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts



Hope this is of some use.

--Al


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Nilsen Omma" <henrik at ubuntu.com>
To: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List" 
<ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: Live CD with AT features: first test


> Al Puzzuoli wrote:
>> Hello Henrik,
>>
>> I'm attempting to troubleshoot the speech related issues you mentioned 
>> and thus far, I have one observation and one question.
>>
>> 1.  It appears that test-speech is not being installed as part of 
>> gnome-speech on the live cd.  I remember this issue was discussed a few 
>> weeks back, and I thought that it was fixed, at least in the gnome-speech 
>> available from the repository.
>
> Hm, yes I noticed that as well. We should just report that as a bug 
> against gnome-speech. ( I was trying to get orca running, on my installed 
> system but was blocked by this).
>
> Ah, I see Luke has already filed it :) 
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-speech/+bug/37270
>
>> 2.  For purposes of troubleshooting I'm looking at how to set up a 
>> persistent file system.  There is a nice wiki on doing this at:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDPersistence
>> The procedure seems simple enough, but my question is that according to 
>> the wiki, to enable persistence, you need to press f6 at the boot menu, 
>> and att the persistent boot parameter.
>> If it isn't already, could that parameter be included by default when 
>> booting with accessibility, or would doing so break things if a 
>> persistent file system were actually not present?
>
> I happened to see a bug today claiming that persistence is quite complex 
> to use. Yeah, I don't know what implications turning it on by default 
> would have if you didn't have a USB stick or whatever attached. I guess 
> it's easy to find out :) 
> (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/34169)
>
> I'm weary of trying to add this now, way past feature freeze. It is 
> possible to select an F5 option and then add more with F6 right?
>
>  - Henrik
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