Re: [orca-list] problems starting orca on FC13

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

This has been broken for a long time. Basically, if Orca isn't running
on the GUI, you can't access via the console.

Janina

Peter Rayner writes:
> Thanks for the help on building at-spi, now I've graduated to the next
> hurdle.
> I'm trying to start orca on my new machine the same way I do on my
> current one.  Here's the sequence
> 1) reboot
> 2) start a console session on VC1 running emacspeak
> 3) start another console session on vc2
> 4) run startx
> note that I don't have orca configured to come up automatically
> 5) return to vc1
> 6) In an emacspeak shell window run
> orca --version which gives
> orca 2.32 pre (the version from the git master branch I hope) 
> orca -t now yields the following
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> orca -t
> Welcome to Orca setup.
> Enable echo by word?  Enter y or n: y
> Enable key echo?  Enter y or n: n
> Select desired keyboard layout.
> 1. Desktop
> 2. Laptop
> Enter choice: 2
> Enable Braille?  Enter y or n: n
> Enable Braille Monitor?  Enter y or n: n
> Automatically start orca when you log in?  Enter y or n: y
> Setup complete.  Press Return to continue.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 2207, in main
>     init(pyatspi.Registry)
>   File "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1620, in init
>     registry.registerEventListener(_onChildrenChanged,
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pyatspi/registry.py", line 331, in __getattribute__
>     raise RuntimeError('Could not find or activate registry')
> RuntimeError: Could not find or activate registry
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The only other potentially useful thing I can add is that the version
> of at-spi-registryd is the prebuilt one from /usr/libexec (vrom the
> package at-spi-30.2) rather than the one I built from its repository
> which is in /usr/local/libexec.  
> I'd be grateful for any solutions or pointers to further debugging.
> thanks in advance
> Peter
> >
>
>
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> Peter Rayner
> room 330 
> School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Vic, Australia
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