Re: Orca Help recovering from orca crashes.

["Cody" <churst31 verizon net>]

Hi tom

 This is exactly what I had emaled the orca-list about about a month or so 
ago. When using evolution it'd crash, and randomly on the desktop it would 
crash. Good theory...

Cody
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:43 AM
Subject: Orca Help recovering from orca crashes.


> Hi, all.
> Ok, well I have been running orca 0.25 with gnome-speech 0.4.0 and
> festival and Dectalk 5. I've noticed orca crashes quite often
> unexpectedly, and the only way to get speech back is to reboot from 
> scratch.
> Some notes about the problem. When orca crashes all sound, speech, and
> system sounds are completely stopped. When logging out, and back in the
> desktop sound effects are totally silent and won't work. Also opening
> gnome-terminal and doing aplay path-tofile/some-sound.wav refuses to
> play the wav file I attempt to point aplay to.
> My theory is when orca crashes and even if orca itself is completely
> killed there is still some background process that has ahold of the
> sound card. So the next time I log in and start x nothing can access the
> sound card. I've noticed even at a shell emacspeak and other apps won't
> work either using the sound card.
> First,  is there anyway to fix this without a total reboot? Second, do I
> need to file a bugzilla report on this? I'm certain someone else has had
> to have this problem as it happens both with festival and dectalk so I
> can't blame the sinth for the lock. It's either orca or gnome-speech
> which is my guess.
>
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