Re: Orca serious loss of speech

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Cody:

The main development platforms for the Orca team are Solaris and Ubuntu,
and we do little on Fedora.  But, with your help, we can try to explore
this problem further.  The Alt+F2 problem is indeed a bad one, and I
think it is related to this bug in GTK+:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326362

I believe it is fixed in gtk+-2.8.16.  This was done within hours of the
GNOME 2.14 deadline, so if Fedora jumped the gun, they might not have
gotten this in their release.

For the possibility orca quitting altogether, I think we need to do a
little more investigation.  Do you have other strategies you can use to
access the machine, such as switching to a virtual console or logging in
from a different machine?  If so, it would be interesting to see if:

o Orca is running:  ps -elf | grep orca
o Speech is running:  ps -elf | grep synthesis-driver

In addition, instead of rebooting, see if the desktop comes back if you
kill speech and orca and then restart orca.

Will

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 10:21 -0400, Cody Hurst wrote:
> Hello,
>   I am running orca 0.2.3 and I am experiencing random losses of speech.
> For example, while writing an email, orca will just quit altogether. If
> I try to bring up the run box (alt f2), then type orca, orca will not
> restart, causing me to reboot the whole sytem. This has happened when on
> the desktop and using some applications. I am using Fedora Core 5, gnome
> 2.14. I hope this issue is addressed soon because I can not keep
> rebooting this system.
>
>   Also, the gnome pannels keep crashing when I use the alto f2 run box
> so could this be an issue?
>
> Cody
>
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