Re: Orca Stability issues with 2.17.3

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Hermann:

This sounds a lot like the applications are crashing and Orca is hanging
while trying to read the crash dialogs.  If I recall correctly, the root
of the problem is that the CORBA calls from Orca to the app are hanging,
causing Orca to hang.  :-(  Rich Burridge from the Orca team did some
work to help prevent these hangs, and to also allow Orca to read the
crash dialogs from the application.

The other issue regarding you needed to reboot after Nautilus crashes
sounds like something might have gone awry in the AT-SPI infrastructure
and it needed a kick in the pants.  

I see you mention Orca v2.17.3 as being a possible suspect.  If you try
keeping all other things constant, except use Orca v2.17.2, do you see
the same problems?

Will

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:04 +0100, Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> as the subject tells, there are some stability issues I encountered with 
> the latest Orca.
> Orca often crashes when an error message appears.
> This error message can be caused by Gnome-Session manager, Open Office 
> or Nautilus.
> In the case of Gnome-Session manager it happens when I opened the main 
> menu by pressing Alt+f1. OO crashes when I closed a document, and 
> Nautilus opened an error message when I tried to change the owner of a 
> file, so that I was able to copy it from my notebook (Windows XP) to my 
> desktop computer (Ubuntu 6.10).
> In all cases I had to restart Orca, and then I could see the error 
> message. After the problem with Nautilus Orca only showed the startup 
> dmessage, and then I couldn't navigate at all; I had to restart my computer.
> Since this happens with Orca 2.17.3 I guess this is a stability problem.
> Does anyone have similar experience?
> Regards
> Hermann
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