Re: Orca creating new account in edgy

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

It sounds like Orca is starting up in the background and then dying.
The watchdog is detecting this and then restarts Orca.  To work around
this, you might try logging in to a virtual console and then run "orca
--text-setup" from it.

Will

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 16:21 -0400, Cody Hurst wrote:
> Hi,
>   Thanks I got the sound working in that account, though orca doesn't
> seem to be operating correctly, when I exit this account, and log into
> the other one, all I hear is "echo by word y or n" over and over and
> over. I can't kill festival or orca because it jsut won't work. then the
> next time I log into this account, my settings are whiped, and orca says
> "welcome to orca setup" what is going on here?
>
> Cody
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:06 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > If you want to use sound you'll have to go to the tab that says
> > > "Privileges". Now here comes the tricky part, because you'll have to tab
> > > to a table with the different privileges that you can assign to a user,
> > > however, Orca can't currently recognize the status of the check boxes
> > > that are next to the privilege you want to assign to a user, so it's
> > > rather a guesswork if you have given the user that perticular privilege.
> > > A bug has been filed on this matter, but unfortunately i can't currently
> > > remember the number of it. 
> >
> > Here it is!  :-)
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358467
> >
> > I missed it, too, and accidentally opened a new bug. I caught myself,
> > but only after it was too late.
> >
> > Will