Re: [orca-list] no longer able to install orca

[Zachary Kline <kline zachary gmail com>]

Hi John,
I take it you're running a "mixed" system with both keyworded and stable 
packages?  For what it's worth, I think Gnome 2.28 in Gentoo is still in 
the testing stage.  I personally haven't been brave enough to go beyond 
2.26 myself.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about Atspi to know if that's your problem. 
I suspect not, though.  I'mmI'm not sure why that particular python script 
should hang: it seems to be rather foolproof.
Have you tried reemerging pygtk?
I really don't know what else I could possibly suggest, other than to be 
careful with upgrades in general.  Never had this before.
Best,
Zack.

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, covici ccs covici com wrote:

> Hi.  I am running a gentoo system, and I did an upgrade of the system
> and orca will no longer install its 2.28.3 version, or any other version
> and it no longer works at all.  It is hanging when it says
> checking for python module pyatspi.
>
> I looked at the configure script and it seems that the following python
> script just hangs:
>
> import sys
> try:
>         import pygtk
>         pygtk.require('2.0')
>         import pyatspi
> except ImportError:
>         sys.exit(1)
> except:
>         sys.exit(0)
> sys.exit(0)
>
> If I run this program python just sits there forever.
>
> Re emerging atspi has no effect.
>
> Any ideas on this would be appreciated.