Re: [orca-list] Orca dies after the initial "welcome to orca" and test-speech works

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Am still having the same issue: orca dies just after the initial message. 
It also dies as soon as I try and enter the preferences UI from the main 
window.  This means I have no ~/.orca directory, so I can't turn on 
debugging.  I tried creating ~/.orca by hand, rebooting, and still the same 
issue and I still have nothing under ~/.orca so scan't get debugging:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Debugging

I've just finished rebuilding orca, atk, gail, and atspi for the millionth 
time all from svn.

Where else can I look for a problem?

-- Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca dies after the initial "welcome to orca" and 
test-speech works


> Hi Rich:
>
> atk/gail/at-spi are all used by the core stuff on the machine, so you need 
> to make sure the core stuff can find it.  This typically means explicitly 
> saying --prefix=/usr on the ./autogen.sh line.  Furthermore, building 
> at-spi requires an additional --libexecdir=/usr/lib/at-spi on Ubuntu.  See 
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall for more info.
>
> My suspicion is that if you did not build/install atk/gail/at-spi as 
> above, you've put your system in kind of an inaccessible state.  So, 
> please make sure you've built/installed as above and let me know what 
> happens.  You may also need to logout and/or reboot[1].
>
> Will
>
> [1] - Well, you could log out and then issue the 'bonobo-slay' command a 
> couple times from a virtual console.
>
> Rich Caloggero wrote:
> > I'm using ubuntu hardy.
> > I've rebuild orca, gail, atspi, atk a number of times from svn.
> > I've deleted my ~/.orca
> >  test-speech does work - even with viavoice.
> >  The entire startup message spoken is "welcom to orca. starting orca 
> > preferences."
> >  Question: do I need to explicitly say "--prefix=/usr" on all my 
> > ./configure or ./autogen.sh runs when building atk, gail, atspi, and 
> > orca?  I noticed that if I leave it off from the autogen.sh run in the 
> > orca tree, it places stuff in /usr/local. So, I rebuild orca using 
> > prefix=/usr with no luck. I guess I'll try rebuilding everything with 
> > explicit prefix=/usr but fear I'll have no better luck.  I dont' remember 
> > having to do this in ubuntu 7.10.
> >  Logginng in from ssh shows two orca processies running; is this normal? 
> > Killing and restarting does no good.
> >  Sometimes, when I hit control+alt+backspace to return to the login 
> > prompt, I get about a half second of speech; can't make out what its 
> > trying to say because it dies due to the logout.
> >  I'm using gnome-speech - at least I've not been able to start orca so 
> > haven't changed this from the default, which I assume is gnome-speech. 
> > I'm looking into setting up speech-dispatcher, but not sure it will help. 
> > Since test-speech works, I'm assuming the problem is not with the speech 
> > system, but some other misconfiguration or something bad about my ubuntu 
> > installation.  I upgraded from 7.10 (orca was working fine before I 
> > upgraded).
> >  What else can I try?
> > -- Rich
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