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

Hi, Rich,
See if you can capture any errors produced by orca. I'm assuming you are starting Orca using Alt-F2. Type the following in the Run Application dialog: 

orca &> ~/orca-errors.txt
Once you've done this, the contents of the file orca-errors.txt in your home directory might indicate the nature of the problem. Good luck, 

dave


Rich Caloggero wrote:

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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