Re: [orca-list] orca crash on exiting firefox

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Guy Schlosser <guyster104 att net> wrote:
>  Hi all, I wrote my script as follows:
> #!/bin/sh
> ** let's kill sd and orca
> killall speech-dispatcher
> killall orca
> ** now let's restart them.
> speech-dispatcher
> orca
>
> When I try to execute it to test, I get an error that there is
> already an instance of orca running.  Can you not kill orca with
> killall?  

Yes, you can. However, the killall command has to be executed either by the
user who owns the Orca process, or by root.

Try running the killall command manually and then checking with ps to verify
the result.

Also, you should never need to do this. If Orca has to be restarted during a
session, it's a bug that needs to be found and fixed.