Re: [orca-list] sysadmin help

[Jim Barbour <jbar barcore com>]

An easy way to tell if sudo is getting in the way is to do this from a
terminal...

% sudo env | grep GTK_MODULES

If you get output from this command, sudo is letting that environment
variable through and sudo isn't your problem.

If there's no output, then sudo is stripping GDK_MODULES.

Jim

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:03:29AM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> 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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