abrt 1.1.1 detected a crash. architecture: x86_64 Attached file: backtrace cmdline: festival --tts comment: See above. component: festival crash_function: raise executable: /usr/bin/festival global_uuid: 29f4c965476b87c3105eb31c01addce354df5f71 kernel: 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 package: festival-1.96-16.fc13 rating: 3 reason: Process /usr/bin/festival was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT) release: Fedora release 13 (Goddard) How to reproduce ----- 1. Type: echo "hello" | festival --tts 2. Instead of speaking the word 'hello', as it used to do, this long error output is generated 3.
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I am now straddling f14 and f15 and I figured out that the problem is the value of MALLOC_CHECK_. It must be 0 for festival to work. In KDE, this is not the case, hence festival is problematic with KDE as long as it requires a MALLOC_CHECK_ value that is not always 0.