Re: [orca-list] Orca on Hardy - orca crashes when prefs dialog opened

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Rich:

The debug log doesn't have enough information in it for me to
debug/diagnose the problem.  :-(  One thing I can say is that you are
mixing versions of software in a way that we really don't support --
Orca is really only meant to be run with the version of GNOME it was
targetted for.  So, Orca v2.25.x is meant for GNOME 2.25.x.  I believe
Hardy is at GNOME 2.22.x, so there is a bit of distance between it and
GNOME v2.25.x.

Since you're using vmWare, it seems like you should be able to try an
installation of Ubuntu Intrepid (if they've fixed their accessible live
CD/install issues) and/or maybe OpenSolaris, both of which should have
GNOME 2.24.x.

I'm also not really conversant with vmWare on the Mac (or anywhere), so
I afraid I'm basically just useless to you at the moment.  :-(

Will

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 14:32 -0500, Rich Caloggero wrote:
> I'm running hardy with latest orca (2.25.2 pre)
> atk: svn version 1298
> gail: svn version 1351
> at-spi: spn version 1123
> orca: svn version 4330
>
> I'm experiencing a crash (or at least speech goes away) when I try and start 
> the orca preferences dialog, either from the orca main window or any other 
> app (with orcaKey+control+spaceBar).
>
> I'm also experencing a problem getting to the top panel; I just simply 
> cannot get there. I'm using vmWare Fusion on a mac, and the key mapping is a 
> bit strange. The option key is mapped to alt in the virtual machine, but the 
> control+option keys in the mac universe say ignore next keypress to the mac 
> screen reader, so I press the combination twice to send a control+alt+tab to 
> linux. Orca sometimes goes to the desktop frame or to the bottom panel, but 
> never to the top panel.  When it goes to the bottom panel, it keeps 
> repeating information about what object its focused on until I press alt+tab 
> to get back to either the orca main window or any other window I might have 
> opened.
>
> The debug log that is attached only contains debugging info for the 
> preferences crash.
>
> Thanx...
> -- Rich
>
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