[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and Festival, getting gethostbyname failed error

[Steve Woolley]

Interestingly enough I had this same problem today....

1. I created the directory and permissions for the directory "
/var/lib/asterisk/festivalcache/ " (per the comment in the festival.conf
file)

2. I had to comment out some things in the festival.conf file: the
"host" line, the "port" line, and the "festivalcommand" line. I have
also noticed the festivalcache functionality is not working -- but that
may be because I am using the newest festival version 1.95beta. This may
be the reason I also had to comment out the "festivalcommand" line.



-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chris
Samaritoni
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:36 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and Festival,getting gethostbyname
failed error

I've installed festival 1.4.3, I've applied the proper patches and
everthing seems to have gone fine. So I edited the festival.conf file
per the Wiki

; Festival Configuration
[general]
host=localhost
port=1314
usecache=yes
cachedir=/var/lib/asterisk/festivalcache/
festivalcommand=(tts_textasterisk "%s" 'file)(quit)\n

I added the following extension

exten => 5001,1,Answer
exten => 5001,2,Festival(mary had a little lamb) exten => 5001,3,Hangup

I made sure to start the festival server up before running Asterisk, but
I get the following error from asterisk:

     -- Executing Festival("SIP/125-03f4", "mary had a little lamb") in
new stack
   == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': Found Oct  6 10:23:06
WARNING[-180528208]: app_festival.c:335 festival_exec: 
festival_client: gethostbyname failed

I noticed if I don't even run the festival server it still gets this
error. I've tried changing host in the festival.conf file to 127.0.0.1,
I've tried the name of the server, to the IP address of the server it
all gets the same error. localhost resolves fine, the name of the server
resolves fine.

I've tried to search through the archives, but I didn't see this error
occurring for anyone else.

Thanks,
Chris
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