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

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Well Michael, you're the man of the hour:).  I think it was the bit
with orca settings I looked in there yesterday and saw that the
.local/share/... wasn't built so I renamed .orca aside and figured to
start from scratch but that didn't do anything either; I happened to
see the errors about at-spi-registryd and clamped onto that.  I didn't
even bother looking further for at-spi-registryd just now; just copied
the orca settings over and it started up fine.

Jaycen, I did forget about the desktop launcher for at-spi-registryd.
That's where I used to find the expected path and in the past that was
often wrong and did not match the real location of at-spi-registryd.
That now lines up correctly now so we Arch users don't need to mess
about with sym links to at-spi-registryd anymore.

I think I better go out and update the wiki for Orca and gdm with Arch
Linux; there are some significant changes to be made now.

Thanks again Michael for the details; they can almost be pasted into
the wiki ver batim.

Oh, this thing with .local/share/orca not being built in the gdm
folder may not be unique to Arch Linux either.  So if others are
having trouble with this, check out this issue on your respective
systems.

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:13:35PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> 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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