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

[Chris Samaritoni]

Hmmm? I should have tried that. I commented everything out of the 
festival.conf file and it works!

I uncommented the usecache and cachedir and it still works, but when I 
uncomment festivalcommand it just hangs on

Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': Found

but definitely the gethostbyname error occurs when host and port are 
uncommented and specified.

Thanks.
Chris


Steve Woolley wrote:
> 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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