Re: [orca-list] Orca starts but exits without doing anything in one account

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hmm...I'm not sure.  I've see the '<unknown>' thing before and it 
doesn't seem to cause a lockup.  Hmmm....you might try running the 
attached script and see if it hangs.  If it does, try killing one of the 
apps that doesn't show up in the list and then rerun the script.

Will

PS - Be careful.

Michael Whapples wrote:
> Here are the programs reported:
> seahorse-agent
> gnome-session
> '<unknown>'
> gnome-settings-daemon
> metacity
> gnome-panel
> camberra-gtk-play
> nautilus
> polkit-gnome-manager
> mixer_applet2
> notification-area-applet
> clock-applet
> nm-applet
> bluetooth-applet
> applet.py
> orca
>
> The only one which looks possibly bad is '<unknown>', mainly because I
> don't have a clue what it is either. How might I work this out? However
> I have just tried xlsclients from the account which works and
> '<unknown>' is still reported.
>
> Where to go now?
>
> Michael Whapples
> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:32 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Michael:
> >
> > Doing an "export DISPLAY=:0" from your text console before running the 
> > "xlsclients" command should work in the majority of cases.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I don't think there is anything else running (I certainly did not add
> > > anything myself to start up last time I had orca running) and just in
> > > case there are applications running I pressed alt+tab and alt+f4 a few
> > > times (even an alt+f6 in case there was one of those hard to get to
> > > dialogs) but even after that orca did not respond. Also it seems like if
> > > I can get to the log out screen and log out before orca gives up it will
> > > say good bye as it exits.
> > >
> > > I have not tried the xlsclients command to find out if there is other
> > > applications running as I only have access to a text console and I am
> > > not quite sure how to tell xlsclients the display to use (I just don't
> > > know how to specify the X display to applications). If I can check it
> > > from a text console could you give me an example of the command?
> > >
> > > Michael Whapples
> > > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:11 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > > Hi Michael:
> > > >
> > > > It might possible that some other application has automatically started 
> > > > and has caused a blockage in the AT-SPI.  emacs causes this kind of 
> > > > thing to happen, for example.
> > > >
> > > > Do you know if any other application might be running on the desktop? 
> > > > You might be able to check this by doing an "xlsclients".
> > > >
> > > > Will
> > > >
> > > > Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > On my desktop orca starts but then does nothing and then crashes in one
> > > > > of the accounts. I don't think the problem itself is orca as the same
> > > > > copy of orca works fine in another account on the computer. Also I don't
> > > > > remember doing anything the last time it was working which might have
> > > > > caused the problem (I mean the last time I used orca for the entire time
> > > > > the computer was running I did not alter settings, I just did things
> > > > > like check email). As this beats me, I thought I would get orca to
> > > > > produce debug output and just before the trace back of the exception
> > > > > there is a message saying that a timeout happens suggesting something
> > > > > has hung and says aborting. Then there is a trace back but its not clear
> > > > > to me from that what has caused the problem. I have included the debug
> > > > > file in case it is useful for someone to help me find out what is going
> > > > > on (file attached).
> > > > >
> > > > > can my system be recovered from that or should I just bring forward the
> > > > > swap of distribution I was planning for the machine at some point?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > Michael Whapples
> > > > >
> > > > >
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import pyatspi
desktop = pyatspi.Registry.getDesktop(0)
for app in desktop:
    print app