Re: Orca "no focus" and hangs.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Joanie:

Awesome test case.  Thanks very very much - it helped reproduce a hang
much faster than I've ever been able to do.  With this, I was able to
dig into the problem causing this particular hang very quickly and I
just checked in a potential fix for the problem.  

It's in GNOME CVS HEAD now, and I'm curious if it helps stability for
you across the board.

Thanks again!

Will

On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 14:42 -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> I've been having the hanging issue with the most recent CVS builds as
> well.  Setting useBonoboMain to False helps quite a bit, but, like
> Javier, I still have the occasional hang.  Because I don't believe in
> the notion of truly non-reproducible bugs, I spent this afternoon trying
> to find a reliable test case.  I think I have one!
>
> 0.  Be sure that you do *NOT* have useBonoboMain set to False
> 1.  Launch Orca from the terminal
> 2.  Launch Evolution
> 3.  Navigate to the list of messages in your Inbox
> 4.  Begin loop
>       4a. Press Enter on the current message
>       4b. Press Escape to close that message and return to the list
> 5.  If you perform step 4 enough times, Orca will eventually crash
>
> Notes and Observations:
>
> * I can reliably reproduce this on 3 out of 3 machines, all of which are
> running Ubuntu 6.06 and Evolution 2.6.1
>
> * The number of times you will have to open and close the current
> message seems to vary.  The earliest number of times for me has been 7;
> the greatest, 30.  Usually it falls somewhere in the middle.  But if you
> patiently open and close the message repeatedly, eventually Orca will
> hang.  At least it does for me.
>
> * I have tried this both with a variety of HTML messages and text-only
> messages.  Which message you open doesn't seem to matter; the act of
> opening and closing a window repeatedly seems to be the trick.
>
> * When useBonoboMain is set to False, I cannot reproduce the crash using
> the above routine.
>
> * Possible Red Herring Alert:  It *seems* that the crash requires less
> iterations when you wait for Orca to say everything it wants to prior to
> pressing Escape to close the message.  What this means, of course, I
> couldn't tell you.  And this is only the case *most of the time*; not
> all of the time.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Take care.
> Joanie
>
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