[BRLTTY] brltty looping in sonar gnu linux

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/06/09 at 08:56 -0500]

>I reported a couple of weeks ago that I'm trying to configure brltty as
>a console screen reader. It does start and speak now. But it restarts
>itself after it speaks it's name and version, and it won't speak on
>command. After every five or ten seconds, it will restart, and repeat
>it's name and version before crashing again. I'd be happy to get
>whatever info you guys need but it won't be easy, since I'd have to do
>it blindly. What should I try first? This is fairly important because
>I'm already getting complaints from new sonar users saying because
>brltty is continuously restarting they can't use their braille displays,
>so I have to find a solution fairly quickly. I don't mean to rush you
>guys, and that's not what I'm trying to do. We're still in beta status
>and our image isn't due out until the middle or end of this month but
>this is a very high priority issue for me to fix.

We need to see a log of what's going on. Please use log-file (in brltty.conf) 
or -L (on the comand line) to specify the log file, and log-level (in 
brltty.conf) or -l (on the command line). For the log level, perhaps start 
with: debug,inpkts,outpkts,speech

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