Re: [orca-list] got loss of speech after exiting firefox

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
This sounds a bit like a bug I found some time ago, but never really 
found the cause as it only happens sometimes and not reliably enough to 
go at it with debugging. The bug I encountered like this still had orca 
running but orca just didn't respond. The system wasn't locked up and if 
I ran:
$ orca -q
orca would quit without problems and then I could start it again.

The little bit I have found out about the bug I found is that orca had a 
problem with at-spi but I am unsure whether it was a problem actually in 
orca or at-spi or may be even firefox and how it uses at-spi to make 
itself accessible.

As the work around is so simple, the problem so hard to track down, I 
have decided to leave it at the moment, partly due to the large changes 
which will be soon happening to move at-spi to dbus, never know it may 
just disappear in some of those changes. If you do manage to get more 
information on this then let us know.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> I am using Orca 2.28.0 with most of gnome 2.28 and I got a complete loss
> of speech after exiting firefox, this morning.  Speech dispatcher was
> still running and so was Orca, so I did not know what to do -- I did
> control alt backspace and logged in again and all was well.  I did note
> thet in my .xsession-errors there are tons of state change messages --
> is at-spi  or something in debug mode?
>
> Thanks.
>
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