Bonobo.GeneralError and pyatspi

[Peter Rayner <prayner unimelb edu au>]

I'm still having trouble getting orca started on my FC13 x86_64
laptop.  After a few hours python wrestling I've got to the interface
with bonobo ... and here I have to call for help.

After looking at the code in __init__.py in the pyatspi directory I can
contrast the working (my old machine) and nonworking (new machine)
problems as:

Working case:
python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:41:38) 
[GCC 4.3.2 20080917 (Red Hat 4.3.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bonobo
>>> bonobo.activation.activate_from_id("OAFIID:Accessibility_Registry:1.0", 0, 0)
<CORBA.Object 'IDL:Accessibility/Registry:1.0' at 0x8be2ab8>

and nonworking

python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Jun  4 2010, 18:20:31) 
[GCC 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bonobo
>>> bonobo.activation.activate_from_id("OAFIID:Accessibility_Registry:1.0", 0, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
Bonobo.GeneralError

There are 2 bonobo-activation-server processes running on both working
and nonworking machines.  The bonobo-activation-config.xml files look
identical on both machines.  Anyone have a guess what's happening or
any other avenues I can explore?  
thanks in advance
Peter




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