Re: [orca-list] Orca Completely Broken!

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Steve:

We'll get you out of this (I hope).  Here's some stuff you can try, and 
I'd do them in this order.  Of course, you should remember to back up 
anything before you delete it, so I didn't mention that here:

0) Make sure accessibility is enabled for your gnome-session.  From your 
mail, it sounds like this step is OK.

1) Depending upon how you are starting X, you might need to set 
GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge and you may also need to make sure 
at-spi-registryd is running.  Logging in via gdm accomplishes this -- 
I'm not sure if startx is going to do so unless you have the right stuff 
set up for startx.

2) Make sure DISPLAY is set to your X Server (likely DISPLAY=:0).  Orca 
cannot provide access to a session if it cannot find it.

3) Rebuild/install orca from a fresh pull from SVN trunk.  Don't pull 
into an existing area -- pull into a brand new directory.

4) Run bonobo-slay and then restart your X server.  This will kill any 
errant at-spi-registryd and bonobo things that might be causing issues.  
Rebooting should accomplish the same thing, but that's a bit excessive.

5) rm -rf ~/.orca -- this will blow away any corrupted orca settings 
that might be causing issues.

6) You can try "rm -rf ~/.gconf* ~/.gnome*" to trash GNOME settings that 
might be causing issues.

If possible, you can also join us in the #orca IRC chat room of 
irc.gnome.org for more live debugging.

Will

Steve Holmes wrote:
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> No I don't have x running when I was doing a 'orca -t' I thought that
> was run from a text console.  That's what I did when I originally set
> things up a while back.  Now I just updated to svn 3561 but still same
> problem.  I get gnome startup sound, then "Welcome to orca" but then
> it locks up.  I just got through trying to do ctrl-alt-f2 to get to my
> text console and no response.  The only thing that works for me is
> ctrl-alt-backspace.  Earlier today, I had been trying to run gdmsetup
> and that's seems to be when the lock-ups began; now my gnome is no
> good anymore! Is there any way to restore settings without having to
> completely reinstall my system?
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:32:39PM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
>   
> > Oops - sorry for the terseness.  I was entering that using Dasher and 
> > pushed the wrong button.  From the GtkWarning, it looks like your 
> > DISPLAY environment variable is not set and/or the X Server is not running.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Willie Walker wrote:
> >     
> > > Steve Holmes wrote:
> > >       
> > > > GtkWarning: could not open display
> > > >         
> > > Is your display environment variable set?
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> > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca
> > >       
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