[orca-list] orca going dead in hardy

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Well, I recompiled atk, gail, atspi, and orca with no luck.

When I ssh in from my windows box, I see two orca processes running. I kill
them and then on the console I type alt+f2 then orca. No speech, and again
two processes. Shouldn't there only be one?  No sighted help, so have no
idea if any messages.

What else can I try?

Oh ya, I did an update/upgrade too!
> -- Rich

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 1:46 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] Fw: orca going dead in hardy
>
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc mit edu>
> > To: "Jeffrey Shockley" <jawswizard ec rr com>
> > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 1:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] orca going dead in hardy
> >
> >
> > > I've been having similar problems.
> > >
> > > Last week, I recompiled all orca dependancies: atspi, gale, atk, and
> > > gnome-speech and when I reinstalled all of them, I had speech.
> > >
> > > Now, arriving here after the weekend, I login to gnome and I have no
> > > speech. I've recompiled and reinstalled gnome-speech again, but no go. I
> > > removed all my .orca and .gnome directories in my home directory and
> > > logged out and back in with no results. I rebooted twice with no 
> > > results.
> > >
> > > What's going on here. I'm completely at a loss.
> > >
> > > Guess I'll try recompiling orca, atspi, gale, atk, gnome-speech yet 
> > > again.
> > > Do I have to do this every time I want to use the bloody thing?  Think
> > > I'll stick with Windows just a bit longer! At least it mostly works from
> > > day to day.
> > >
> > > -- Rich
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Jeffrey Shockley" <jawswizard ec rr com>
> > > To: <orca-list gnome org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:38 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [orca-list] orca going dead in hardy
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Agree with you, cody. It's strange. Orca didn't do this until Ubuntu
> > > > 8.04, and it even did that in the betas of 8.04. I didn't say anything
> > > > because I thought it would have been fixed by the final release.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Jeffrey
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> > > >
> > > > Cody Hurst wrote:
> > > > > This issue I have had as well and what I have seen is that if orca is
> > > > > not talking but is still running, the alt f2 orca thing will not work
> > > > > it is quite annoying. after typing orca and pressing enter it will
> > > > > state that it couldn't open it. Sometimes launching root aps from the
> > > > > user account will lock orca up completely. I haven't the slightest
> > > > > idea why this happens. My system is up to date and it doesn't seem to
> > > > > lag as much as it did when I first installed it, though the root aps
> > > > > issues can get quite annoying, considering I don't have memorized what
> > > > > is and is not root
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > CJdy
> > > > >
> > > > > On May 17, 2008, at 12:09 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Sat, 17 May 2008, michael weaver wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > orca seems to go dead in hardy after something like ten minutes
> > > > > > > use or less which means i have to start it repeatedly.
> > > > > > Start what? The system or orca?
> > > > > > Lots of people have seen this; please look at the archives.
> > > > > > Also, make sure your system is updated: sudo update-manager or sudo
> > > > > > apt-get update&&  sudo apt-get upgrade
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > i use hardy with the version of orca that comes with it.
> > > > > > > has anyone resolved this problem as it is very annoying for
> > > > > > > example reading a web page and finding the speech goes dead a bit
> > > > > > > like running the demo of a commercial screenreader in windows
> > > > > > > where it times out after so many minutes of use.
> > > > > > You can quite easily restart orca and resume reading though?
> > > > > > Alt f2 and type orca.
> > > > > > Yes, this needs to be looked at though.
> > > > > > I use debian and have no problems, but also have a ubuntu partition
> > > > > > for
> > > > > > this reason, so will do some testing when I have time.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Daniel Dalton
> > > > > >
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