orca problems on garnome

[Alex Snow <>]

Hi,

Just finished building garnome 2.6.17.92 on slackware 11.0. The build process completed successfully, and gnome seems to 
start ok, however when starting Orca I get:
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
Bonobo accessibility support initialized

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1071, in start
    speech.speak(_("Welcome to Orca."))
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/speech.py", line 154, in speak
    _speechserver.speak(text, __resolveACSS(acss), interrupt)
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line 809, in speak
    self.__speak(text, acss, interrupt)
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line 757, in __speak
    speaker = self.__getSpeaker(acss)
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line 445, in __getSpeaker
    parameters = speaker.getSupportedParameters()
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line 106, in getSupportedParameters
    return self.gnome_speaker.getSupportedParameters()
COMM_FAILURE

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1407, in main
    start(registry) # waits until we stop the registry
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1093, in start
    _switchToPresentationManager(0) # focus_tracking_presenter
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 124, in _switchToPresentationManager
    _PRESENTATION_MANAGERS[_currentPresentationManager].activate()
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/focus_tracking_presenter.py", line 841, in activate
    speech.speak(_("Switching to focus tracking mode."))
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/speech.py", line 154, in speak
    _speechserver.speak(text, __resolveACSS(acss), interrupt)
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line 809, in speak
    self.__speak(text, acss, interrupt)
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line 757, in __speak
    speaker = self.__getSpeaker(acss)
  File "/home/alex/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line 396, in __getSpeaker
    voices = self.__driver.getAllVoices()
CORBA.COMM_FAILURE
 
I was able to run orca --text-setup, and have the setup process speak and complete without errors, using gnome-speach 
with the espeak driver.  Anyone know what could be going on here?
thanks.