Re: [orca-list] can't start the orca preferences gui nor setup new preferences

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

Going off on a different tangent... Is your Gutsy an upgrade or a full 
installation from a CD or DVD? If it is an upgrade, did you have any 
problems during the upgrade?

I ask these questions because my laptop (currently running feisty) was 
upgraded from Edgy.  During the upgrade, the OS crashed.  I got one of the 
gurus in my office to repair the upgrade, but I've had a lot of troubles 
installing access-related software on this machine. I'm thinking that the OS 
wasn't fully upgraded in some way, resulting in the problems I'm seeing. 
(For instance, one of the thousand emails Will has in his inbox relates to 
problems I'm having installing AT-SPI trunk.)

So, I guess I'm just wondering if there are problems in the upgrade process. 
Is anyone else having more trouble with an upgraded version of Ubuntu than 
they did with the original installation?

Thanks,

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Ian Pascoe" <softy lofty ilp btinternet com>
Cc: <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] can't start the orca preferences gui nor setup new 
preferences


> Hi Ian:
>
> I have a feeling it is going to be very hard to figure out what's
> causing this hang.  Do you have an application running as any other user
> (e.g., root) that is displaying a window on your desktop?
>
> Will
>
> Ian Pascoe wrote:
> > Hi Will
> >
> > Just to echo from my previous postings - I have the same problems.
> >
> > Cannot launch either the GUI or Text based preferences, just hangs, but 
> > have
> > speech and magnifier working.
> >
> > The workaround posted shortly after Gutsy was launched, Ubuntu being my
> > distro, of ensuring that focus was on the desktop somewhere, didn't work
> > either.
> >
> > Tomas suggested it might be a conflict with Gnerpernicus (sorry for the
> > spelling!), but according to a sighted user, it's not running.
> >
> > Just to re-iterate, this happened for me after the distro upgrade  to 
> > Gutsy.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org]On
> > Behalf Of Willie Walker
> > Sent: 02 January 2008 16:12
> > To: Rui Batista
> > Cc: orca-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] can't start the orca preferences gui nor setup
> > new preferences
> >
> >
> > Hi Rui:
> >
> > This is strange.  It sounds like something Orca is depending upon is
> > hanging.  Have you tried running "orca --text-setup"?  If that hangs,
> > does "test-speech" work for you?
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Rui Batista wrote:
> > > HI all,
> > >
> > > I'm using the latest trunk revision of orca but the problem ocures with
> > > any orca version I've tested (2.20.2, 2.21.4 etc...)
> > >
> > > When I try to access the orca preferences with insert+space orca
> > > hangs...no log, no error, nothing at all....the best I found was
> > > something like
> > >
> > > process killed on line 92 of /usr/bin/orca...
> > >
> > > Worce: if I try do make a new setup (hopping my configuration are
> > > corrupted or something) orca does not start at all.... removing
> > > the .orca directory does not resolve the problem....
> > >
> > > I've been editing my configuration in usersettings.py but that is not
> > > easy lol and the gui don't make typing errors like me lol.... does
> > > anyone have suggestions?...
> > >
> > > Best REgards:
> >
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