Re: [orca-list] cannot correctly start orca on ubuntu 8.04.x - bothreal and virtual

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi, Rich,

I'm assuming you are trying to start Orca from the run application dialog 
(Alt-F2).  If so, try to capture the errors by typing the following in the 
run application dialog box:

orca &> ~/orca-errors.txt

This will write both the output stream and the error stream to the file 
orca-errors.txt in your root directory.

Post that output to the list and maybe someone can see the nature of your 
problem.

Good luck,

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:22 PM
Subject: [orca-list] cannot correctly start orca on ubuntu 8.04.x - bothreal 
and virtual


> I've been attempting to setup ubuntu 8.04.1 under VMWare Fusion on the 
> mac,
> however I cannot seem to start orca. It gives me the introductory message
> and quits.  A few times, if I said "orca --no-setup", it would speak the
> initial welcome message, then say "starting orca preferences", and then
> nothing.  I cannot see the screen, so don't know how to get any more info.
> Anyone have experience with Orca under VMWare on the mac?
>
> Oddly enough, I've had a similar issue with Orca with Ubuntu 8.04 on real
> hardware; I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 using apt-get, and now the only way
> orca will start is if I use the --no-setup switch. In this case, when I
> attempt to run prefs with orca+spaceBar, orca crashes.  Orca never creates
> the .orca directory. My permissions are ok  on my home directory and on 
> the
> .orca directory. I've tried deleting and recreating .orca with no luck.
> I've tried upgrading orca and friends via source and via the new binary
> package repository which Luke set up, but still no joy!  This is a real 
> box
> so I have ssh access from my windows box. I was trying to figure out how 
> to
> get debugging info, but since the .orca directory never gets created, I
> don't know how to enable debugging.
>
> What have I done wrong? It must be me, since others seem to be running 
> 8.04
> with no problem. Yikes...
> -- Rich
>
>
>
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