Re: [orca-list] deadlock with Orca and Firefox

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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I would also be curious as to which version of Firefox you're using.
As far as I'm concerned, Firefox 3.6.2 is a bloody mess! Joanmarie
Diggs worked up a good fix to get around some of the problems with
caret navigation and all but the bookmark organizer is completely
unusable.  I can't say I've had any lockups though.

Now concerning the other issue which I have had on several occasions
in the past is where Orca starts up but the screen for Orca doesn't
come up and there's no speech for anything else either.  I think there
might be a problem with at-spi starting up in time; at least this has
been cited by others recently.  When that happens to me, I usually
have to completely restart X or use shift-ctrl-backspace to kill my
gnome session and log back in from gdm window.  This last part depends
on whether I used gdm to login or startx from my VC.

If you're using a 3.6 version of Firefox, try 3.5.7 or 3.5.8 and see
if the problem persists. for you.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:37:18AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi, Mike:
>
> I see this several times a day, unfortunately. I believe very much it's
> related to Firefox, but then I mostly run Firefox when I'm using Orca.
>
> My strategy for restarting is similar:
>
> *     Go to a root console.
> *     Issue 'orca -q'
> *     Issue 'service speech-dispatcherd restart'
> *     In the gui, run orca from the run dialog.
> *     Press Ctrl when orca starts speaking, as it sometimes hangs
> *     restarting for me, i.e. some sort of freeze that prevents its
> *     'Preferences Quit Help' windo from coming up.
>
> Occasionally, I have to do this several times.
>
> Because I use Speech Dispatcher, I wonder if the problem is with the
> speech interfaces /tts engine, rather than with orca itself?
>
> Sometimes, after relaunch, I see apps open that I did not open, mostly
> that would be the Conglomerate XML Editor. I'm suspecting something is
> launching this from Firefox?
>
> Other times, the open app is Movie Player, also presumably launched from
> Firefox.
>
> PS: Just in the past week, some of my Firefox pup up screens have become
> tediously slow. They still work correctly, but after about a minute or
> more, rather than the instant launch I used to see. Unfortunately, I
> can't point to a public page that's doing this yet, which is why I
> haven't said anything about it previously. I reguarly now see it
> accessing the Schwab trade screen.
>
> Janina
>
> Mike Gorse writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Sometimes Orca locks up for me, and I don't know a way around it
> > other than to run orca --quit and restart it.  I haven't found a
> > reliable way to reproduce it; it's happened once when I was closing
> > an application (probably firefox) and just happened to me again when
> > I was opening a page in Firefox.  Both orca and firefox are waiting
> > for data in ORBit; Firefox is sending a key event, and orca is
> > making some sort of call, waiting for a reply.  Has anyone else seen
> > this, and does anyone have any suggestions for debugging it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Mike G-
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