mjhjmtu

Good evening.

I have Kali Linux and I've been using for a pretty long time, but few days ago I faced a problem while trying to do apt-get upgrade and exactly the problem is attached to updating ' espeakup '.

P.S. I'm sure that the problem isn't in Kali, it's about my poor knowledges about Linux, but we are not talking about it now :) Thanks.

So, when I try to do apt-get upgrade it gives me back this:

Setting up espeakup (1:0.80-5+b3) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
Job for espeakup.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status espeakup.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
 Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2017-08-13 17:47:05 EEST; 30ms ago
 Docs: man:espeakup(8)
 Process: 1634 ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup -V $VOICE (code=exited, status=2)

Aug 13 17:47:05 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Unit entered faile…te.
Aug 13 17:47:05 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Failed with result…e'.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 espeakup
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Next step

It says that few lines were ellipsized, that's why I typed systemctl -l status espeakup.service and here is what I've got:

● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
 Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2017-08-13 17:47:06 EEST; 11min ago
 Docs: man:espeakup(8)
 Process: 1682 ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup -V $VOICE (code=exited, status=2)

Aug 13 17:47:06 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 13 17:47:06 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 13 17:47:06 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Aug 13 17:47:06 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: Stopped Software speech output for Speakup.
Aug 13 17:47:06 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 13 17:47:06 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: Failed to start Software speech output for Speakup.
Aug 13 17:47:06 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 13 17:47:06 kali-Ansi17 systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Literally, that's all I've got. I've tried to find solutions online, but I haven't succeed. And also, there was an error saying:

E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/

and I've solved it by finishing these steps: ps -ef | grep apt-get then kill -9 processnumber and same for ps -ef | grep dpkg -> kill -9 processnumber.

By the way, I've never faced ' espeakup ' and don't even know what it stands for. So please, help me, I'm tired from receiving this error..

espeak is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other languages.

If you think you do not need this package, blacklist it. It seems to be disrupting your apt-get upgrade.

echo "espeak hold" | dpkg --set-selections
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y

The package espeakup is buggy see apt-listbugs espeakup (debian and kali-linux)

From Debian Stretch:

#apt-listbugs list espeakup

Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
grave bugs of espeakup (-> ) <Outstanding>
 b1 - #913453 - espeakup fails install and ends in broken state (Fixed: espeakup/1:0.80-11)
grave bugs of espeakup (-> ) <Resolved in some Version>
 b2 - #911120 - espeakup: Does not fully install (Fixed: 1:0.80-11)
Summary:
 espeakup(2 bugs)

To solve the problem edit :

nano /lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service

Change :

ExecStart=sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/bin/espeakup -V $VOICE'

To :

ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/bin/espeakup -V $VOICE'

Then set the default voice under /etc/default/espeakup for example:

VOICE=fr

Then run the following commands:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start espeakup

Check the status:

systemctl status espeakup

See Debian Bug report logs - #913453 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 06:45:01 UTC