Re: [orca-list] Gdm 2.32 not that accessible

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I have GDM 2.32 working on my archlinux system, I didn't seem to have 
trouble getting at-spi-registryd to start, however I did have another issue.
STEVE: Could you manually check whether at-spi-registryd is started? 
Wait for GDM to start, change to a text console and login as root. Now 
enter the command:
ps -ae | grep at-spi
If at-spi is started you should get a line of output (I think sometimes 
if you restart GDM on a running system you may get two lines. Basically 
the lack of any output means at-spi-registryd isn't starting.

Now to what my problem was for orca to start. It turns out with the 
change of location of orca settings unless these are moved manually orca 
will fail to start (may be its the gdm user is restricted in what it can 
do). Anyway here's what to do:
* Make the /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/orca directory:
mkdir -p /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/orca
* Copy your existing orca settings to the new location:
cp -r /var/lib/gdm/.orca/* /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/orca/
* Correct the permissions (very important as we're doing this as root):
chown --recursive gdm: /var/lib/gdm/.local
* Remove the old orca settings (Not sure whether this is strictly needed 
but orca 2.32.0 will be our stable base version now so the old ones 
aren't needed):
rm -rf /var/lib/gdm/.orca

Now restart GDM and things should work.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Worse for me, gdm won't talk at all enymore.  When I looked in the
> :0-greater.log, I see at the top the following:
> gnome-session[6050]: atk-bridge-WARNING: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not
> started at session startup.
> This is that dreaded at-spi-registryd problem again.<sigh>   I thought
> I had this licked once before but had to move it around to
> /usr/lib/gdm.  I'm not sure where I should place it this time.  What
> I've done before is to create a symbolic for this and place it where
> gdm could find it when launching.
>
> I'll tell you, this gdm business is so complex, I'd sware Microsoft
> has gotten ahold of it or something.  I don't know why gnome has to be
> so complicated and difficult.  Thank God for 'startx' Although it
> might be nice to have a gdm type login available but the battles
> hardly make it worth while for me.
>
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:38:59PM +0200, Christian wrote:
>    
> > Hi all,
> > Today I noticed a thing and I have also heared from others that from gdm v2.32 you cannot just enter your 
> > username and password, it also requires a mouse click. Going to find out more about this, but just wanted to 
> > tell all others. Going to enable auto login.
> > Christian
> >
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