Re: Orca Weird problem on my Ubuntu system

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

To follow up on this...

Joanie Diggs tracked this one down to gnome-panel popping up tool tips.
We've logged a bug (and checked in workaround) here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368626

The good news is that we think this workaround will prevent gnome-panel
from crashing when Orca is running.  The bad news is that I think the
problem really isn't solved and lies elsewhere. :-( Follow the blocker
bug for more information on tracking down the ultimate culprit:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368625

Will

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:04 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Krister:
>
> I'm going to guess this is gnome-panel crashing.  It has a very sad
> outlook on life and randomly kills itself when it sees an assistive
> technology running.  When one looks at the 492 open bugs on gnome-panel,
> 35 of them have "crash" in their summary, so I'm guessing gnome-panel is
> doing some rather complex things that are hard to get right.  :-(
>
> One of my mottos is "if you want something done right, OR AT ALL, you
> have to do it yourself."  As such, we (the Orca team) may need to be the
> ones to track this problem down and propose a patch to the gnome-panel
> folks.  If someone else has time and wants to take the lead on this, I
> have no problem with them doing so.  ;-) ;-) ;-)
>
> Will
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:25 +0100, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> > First, i'm sorry for the cross posting, but i am at a loss now, and
> > don't know what to do and maybe if one don't know the other one will.
> > I have a wierd problem, to say the least on my Ubuntu system (Latest
> > Edgi, Orca from Cvs and ESpeak but it also occurrs on Festival).
> > The problem i'm having is that every time i go into a menu in Gnome, and
> > it doesn't matter which menu and then arrow down a couple steps, the
> > system crashes and Bug buddy comes up with an error report. This started
> > happening last sunday and as far as i know, i didn't do anything in
> > particular to make this start happening. I'm no programmer, so the techy
> > side of the problem is something i don't understand, unfortunately so
> > can't give you any hacker details. I have a bug buddy error report with
> > most debug symbols in place that i could attach should someone want it,
> > but as i said, me i'm at a loss as to what gives here.
> > Thanks in advance for any hints, questions or info you could pass my way.
> > /Krister
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