Re: [orca-list] Orca keeps crashing in Nano

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Paul:

> I've been running Orca 2.26.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 for about a fortnight now 
> and I don't think it's crashed once.

That's nice to hear.  :-)

> But today I've just been trying to read the gnomespeechfactory.py file 
> in Nano to investigate the problem with smileys in Pidgin and Orca is 
> constantly crashing on me.  I mean like once a minute.

Yikes!  This is not good.

>     return self.gnome_speaker.say(text)
> COMM_FAILURE

This usually means the speech server has crashed.  That's not good.

> Any idea what's going on here?  Should I send a debug.out?

A debug.out might help -- it might be a specific string that is being 
sent to eSpeak that is causing the speech server to crash.

Will