Re: [orca-list] Adding new pronunciations causes a hang

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks everyone for testing!  This is now tracked at 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568751.  I've checked in the 
patch to trunk and the gnome-2-24 as well.

Will

Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza wrote:
> Hi Will,
> Great job!
> Your patch eliminate the problem in my machine.
>
> I'm running orca version 4455 in a ubuntu 8.10 and the gnome version is 
> 2.24.1.
>
> Thanks
>
> On 22-01-2009 14:31, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hey All:
> >
> > I noticed some messages being sent to the console when trying to
> > reproduce this bug.  I still cannot reproduce it, but I made a patch to
> > get rid of the messages.  Perhaps they are tickling something on your
> > machines that's not being tickled on my machines?
> >
> > Attached is the patch.  Save it as foo.txt in your svn directory and
> > then run:
> >
> > patch -p0<  foo.txt
> >
> > It should make changes to default.py.  Then build/install orca and
> > rerun.  If the problem goes away, please let me know.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 08:53 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi All:
> > >
> > > I'm starting a new thread.  Please respond to this thread for this
> > > subject only.  Please don't hijack other threads by doing a reply all on
> > > some random message and then changing the subject.  It ends up getting
> > > very confusing.
> > >
> > > It has been reported that adding new pronunciations causes a hang in
> > > Orca.  I have not seen this nor can I reproduce it with repeated
> > > testing.  As such, this is going to be hard for me to track down.
> > >
> > > The latest test case that seems to work for at least one user is the
> > > following:
> > >
> > >      1. Disable braille support in the braille page.
> > >      2. Click OK and restart orca.
> > >      3. Activate orca's preferences, locate the pronunciation page,
> > >         tab to the new entry button and press the space key.
> > >
> > >      The result is that orca stops completely and I need to press
> > >      ctrl+alt+backspace to restart gnome session.
> > >
> > > Halim has also reported a similar hang to me in private e-mail.  I
> > > cannot reproduce this at all, so I'm going to need some help here.
> > >
> > > Please see if you can reproduce this issue.  If you can, please take
> > > note of the exact things you did to cause it to happen.  In addition, if
> > > you can reproduce it, please try reproducing it with svnversion 4432 by
> > > pulling svnversion 4432 using the following command:
> > >
> > > svn co -r 4432 http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk orca-4432
> > >
> > > This will create an orca-4432 directory that you can go into and
> > > build/install orca from svnversion 4432.  If you don't know how to
> > > build/install orca from svn, you can try the instructions at
> > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall.  If you don't feel
> > > comfortable with the instructions, though, don't do it.  You might end
> > > up breaking your installation of Orca if you don't know what you're 
> > > doing.
> > >
> > > In addition, if you can reproduce the problem, please also create a
> > > debug file using the instructions at 
> > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Debugging.
> > >
> > > Finally, please be very specific about the operating system and version
> > > you are using, what "gnome-about --version" gives you, which version of
> > > orca you are using (running "svnversion" in your svn directory will be
> > > very useful), etc.  When I cannot reproduce a problem, all this
> > > information can help me deduce what the problem might be.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Will
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