Thanks,
I should have reported that the favorite thing to run every few days is:
sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo reboot
Did it again, just for you 
No change.
Speak and Say-to are still not working with the same ImportError.
BTW - “mycroft-msm list” runs ok
Might be important… most of the logs in /var/log/mycroft contain:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 578, in _build_master
ws.require(requires)
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 895, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 786, in resolve
raise VersionConflict(dist, req).with_context(dependent_req)
pkg_resources.ContextualVersionConflict: (requests 2.13.0 (/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages), Requirement.parse(‘requests==2.19.1’), {‘mycroft-core’})
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/bin/mycroft-skills”, line 6, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3112, in
@_call_aside
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3096, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3125, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 580, in _build_master
return cls._build_from_requirements(requires)
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 593, in _build_from_requirements
dists = ws.resolve(reqs, Environment())
File “/opt/venvs/mycroft-core/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 781, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘requests==2.19.1’ distribution was not found and is required by mycroft-core
usually mycroft-update.log reports 1 not upgraded. this time:
Hit http://download.mono-project.com wheezy InRelease
Hit http://download.mono-project.com wheezy-apache24-compat InRelease
Get:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie InRelease [22.9 kB]
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie InRelease
Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main armhf Packages [170 kB]
Hit http://repo.mycroft.ai debian InRelease
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/main armhf Packages
Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/ui armhf Packages
Hit http://repo.mycroft.ai debian/main armhf Packages
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/contrib armhf Packages
Get:3 http://repo.mycroft.ai debian/main Translation-en [336 B]
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/non-free armhf Packages
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/rpi armhf Packages
Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/ui Translation-en
Hit http://download.mono-project.com wheezy/main armhf Packages
Get:4 http://repo.mycroft.ai debian/main Translation-en [336 B]
Get:5 http://repo.mycroft.ai debian/main Translation-en [336 B]
Get:6 http://repo.mycroft.ai debian/main Translation-en [336 B]
Get:7 http://repo.mycroft.ai debian/main Translation-en [336 B]
Ign http://repo.mycroft.ai debian/main Translation-en
Hit http://download.mono-project.com wheezy-apache24-compat/main armhf Packages
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/main Translation-en
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/rpi Translation-en
Ign http://download.mono-project.com wheezy/main Translation-en
Ign http://download.mono-project.com wheezy-apache24-compat/main Translation-en
Fetched 193 kB in 29s (6436 B/s)
Reading package lists…
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
mimic is already the newest version.
mycroft-core is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
And every hour /var/log/mycroft/update.log has:
Tue Oct 9 10:17:01 PDT 2018
Starting update
Fetching remote repos
Repo version available: 18.8
allowedVer=‘18.8’ availVer=‘18.8’
Updating…
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
mycroft-mark-1 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Done
Tue Oct 9 11:17:01 PDT 2018
Starting update
Fetching remote repos
Repo version available: 18.8
allowedVer=‘18.8’ availVer=‘18.8’
Updating…
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
mycroft-mark-1 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Done