Re: [orca-list] Orca dies after the initial "welcome to orca" and test-speech works

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Rich:

atk/gail/at-spi are all used by the core stuff on the machine, so you 
need to make sure the core stuff can find it.  This typically means 
explicitly saying --prefix=/usr on the ./autogen.sh line.  Furthermore, 
building at-spi requires an additional --libexecdir=/usr/lib/at-spi on 
Ubuntu.  See http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall for more info.

My suspicion is that if you did not build/install atk/gail/at-spi as 
above, you've put your system in kind of an inaccessible state.  So, 
please make sure you've built/installed as above and let me know what 
happens.  You may also need to logout and/or reboot[1].

Will

[1] - Well, you could log out and then issue the 'bonobo-slay' command a 
couple times from a virtual console.

Rich Caloggero wrote:
> I'm using ubuntu hardy.
> I've rebuild orca, gail, atspi, atk a number of times from svn.
> I've deleted my ~/.orca
>  test-speech does work - even with viavoice.
>  
> The entire startup message spoken is "welcom to orca. starting orca 
> preferences."
>  
> Question: do I need to explicitly say "--prefix=/usr" on all my 
> ./configure or ./autogen.sh runs when building atk, gail, atspi, and 
> orca?  I noticed that if I leave it off from the autogen.sh run in the 
> orca tree, it places stuff in /usr/local. So, I rebuild orca using 
> prefix=/usr with no luck. I guess I'll try rebuilding everything with 
> explicit prefix=/usr but fear I'll have no better luck.  I dont' 
> remember having to do this in ubuntu 7.10.
>  
>  
> Logginng in from ssh shows two orca processies running; is this normal?  
> Killing and restarting does no good.
>  
> Sometimes, when I hit control+alt+backspace to return to the login 
> prompt, I get about a half second of speech; can't make out what its 
> trying to say because it dies due to the logout.
>  
> I'm using gnome-speech - at least I've not been able to start orca so 
> haven't changed this from the default, which I assume is gnome-speech. 
> I'm looking into setting up speech-dispatcher, but not sure it will 
> help. Since test-speech works, I'm assuming the problem is not with the 
> speech system, but some other misconfiguration or something bad about my 
> ubuntu installation.  I upgraded from 7.10 (orca was working fine before 
> I upgraded).
>  
> What else can I try?
> -- Rich
>  
>
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