dogtail CORBA based errors

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon redhat com>]

Hi

On the frysk project we use Dogtail to test our Java-GNOME interface. 
Len - the writer of a lot of these scripts, and others, have the scripts 
working fine. But I encounter lots of error messages centering around:

SpiException: Non-fatal SPIException: type:0 source:0 
"IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0"

I've included one example here. I'm running Dogtail on a stock FC5 with 
versions:

dogtail-0.5.2-2.fc5
pyspi-0.5.5-1.fc5

What do the Corba errors mean? How are they triggered? I'm eager to try 
and get the scripts to work. I've seen then run too, and it is a pretty 
neat site to see the ui exercised

Regards

Phil
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ERROR: Check that the license text is correct
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File 
"/home/pmuldoon/frysk/frysk-gui/frysk/gui/test/dogtail_scripts/TestLicense.py", 
line 79, in setUp
  self.frysk = startFrysk(self.FryskBinary, self.theLogWriter)
File 
"/home/pmuldoon/frysk/frysk-gui/frysk/gui/test/dogtail_scripts/FryskHelpers.py", 
line 274, in startFrysk
  fryskObject = tree.root.application ( FRYSK_APP_NAME )
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 1077, in 
application
  return 
Application(root.findChild(predicate.IsAnApplicationNamed(appName),recursive=False)) 

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 845, in 
findChild
  result = findFirstChildSatisfying(self, pred, recursive)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 817, in 
findFirstChildSatisfying
  if child.satisfies(pred):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 685, in 
satisfies
  return pred.satisfiedByNode(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/predicate.py", line 95, 
in satisfiedByNode
  return node.roleName=='application' and stringMatches(self.appName, 
node.name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/predicate.py", line 13, 
in stringMatches
  return scriptName.matchedBy(reportedName)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/i18n.py", line 160, in 
matchedBy
  return stringsMatch(self.untranslatedString, string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/i18n.py", line 140, in 
stringsMatch
  outString = outString.decode('utf-8')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
  return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 2: 
unexpected code byte

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ERROR: Check that the credits text is correct
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File 
"/home/pmuldoon/frysk/frysk-gui/frysk/gui/test/dogtail_scripts/TestCredits.py", 
line 81, in setUp
  self.frysk = startFrysk(self.FryskBinary, self.theLogWriter)
File 
"/home/pmuldoon/frysk/frysk-gui/frysk/gui/test/dogtail_scripts/FryskHelpers.py", 
line 273, in startFrysk
  run ( FryskBinary, appName=FRYSK_APP_NAME )
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/utils.py", line 99, in run
  for child in desktop.children[::-1]:
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 461, in 
__getattr__
  a = self.__accessible.getChildAtIndex (i)
File "pyspi.pyx", line 497, in atspi.Accessible.getChildAtIndex
File "pyspi.pyx", line 116, in atspi.exception_handler
SpiException: Non-fatal SPIException: type:0 source:0 
"IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0"