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

[covici ccs covici com]

Unfortunately, re emerging pygtk had no effect.

Zachary Kline <kline zachary gmail com> wrote:

> 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.

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