Re: [orca-list] sysadmin help

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hmm....darn.  I don't know.  :-(  I've gone through the various things 
that I'd normally try to resolve this.  The hard part is that I cannot 
reproduce this after following the directions at 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin.  Since there are (unfortunately) a 
number of steps, and mistakes could happen at each step, it's hard to 
debug what might be going wrong on someone else's system.

As a last ditch effort, I've attached an sudoers file that might work 
for you.  I'll admit I'm not an sudoers file guru, so I might be 
ignorant about the various intricacies of that beast.  The one I've 
attached comes from my precious file server, which I generally *never* 
touch for any development purposes, but I did so for you.  It works fine 
for me, and my precious "DO NOT TOUCH THIS FOR DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES" 
file server is Ubuntu 8.04.

If this doesn't work, I'm just not sure how to proceed, except to 
request that you painstakingly verify that you accurately followed the 
steps at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin.  :-(  Note also that that 
site might have some misleading stuff in it by accident, so it might 
need correction.  For example, I just noticed someone edited it to add 
"<username>" to the env_keep line.  This should not be necessary. The 
following line should be all that's needed:

Defaults env_keep+="GTK_MODULES"

Hope this works/helps, because I'm running out of suggestions.  :-(

Will

Milton wrote:
> Hello Wil,
>
> Yes, indeed I get after "echo $GTK_MODULES", the result: "gail:atk-bridge".
> But still after "sudo synaptic" orca stops talking.
> Milton
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: "Tom Masterson" <kd7cyu yahoo com>
> Cc: <Orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] sysadmin help
>
>
> If there isn't an env_reset line, then there shouldn't be a need to have
> an env_keep line. :-)
>
> If you do an "echo $GTK_MODULES" in a gnome-terminal, do you get
> "gail:atk-bridge" as a result?
>
> Will
>
> Tom Masterson wrote:
> > Interestingly my /etc/sudoers which was installed with ubuntu 8.04 does
> > not have a "defaults env_reset" line.  So the question then becomes
> > where should that line be?
> >
> > Tom
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:55:26PM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > I just tried this on Ubuntu Intrepid, updated as of about an hour ago.
> > > It works well for me.  Did you make sure you put the "Defaults env_keep"
> > > line in /etc/sudoers *after* the "Defaults env_reset" line?
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > Milton wrote:
> > > > Hello listers,
> > > > I'm new with Ubuntu/linux. The installation was a great success and
> > > > right now I run Ubuntu 8.04.1 and Orca 2.23.6.
> > > > I need your help for getting sysadmin accessibility. I did the
> > > > following: In /root I create a .orbitrc file and with the cat command I
> > > > see the 2 lines
> > > > ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> > > > and
> > > > ORBIIOPUNIX=0
> > > > and with the visudo command I add the line
> > > > Defaults env_keep+="GTK_MODULES"
> > > > With the chmod command the permission was set to 440
> > > > But still no access to e.g. sudo synaptic.
> > > > Did I miss something or do something wrong?
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > > Milton
> > > >
> > > >
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# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults

Defaults        !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn
Defaults env_keep+="GTK_MODULES"

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL