Re: [orca-list] Problems installing orca on quite old system

[MichaÅ Zegan <webczat_200 poczta onet pl>]

1 - never use festival, use espeak instead, it doesn't have problems
with polish characters.
2 - about this orca thing, maybe your other tools are out of date?

        Dnia 2011-02-08, wto o godzinie 16:35 +0100, W.P. pisze:
> Hi there,
> my system is based on Fedora 8 - laptop I use sometimes. My "normal"
> system is mixture Fedora 8/9/10 + lots of soft compiled from source.
>
> I have tried to install Orca from regular repo (2.20): in installs
> correctly, (+ GNOME_speech / festival, Polish voice for Festival).
> install epiphany (as told that it is working).
>
> Problem: orca starts, says ""Welcome.." (in Polish) trying to read some
> text stops at first polish national character.
>
> OK, I was told to use newer version.
> So i am trying 2.30 from source.
> Need to install pyatspi as dependency (also from source).
> Configure/make/install runs OK but orca does not start:
>
> laurent laptop ~]$ orca
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1747, in main
>     init(pyatspi.Registry)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1267, in init
>     "object:children-changed")
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyatspi/registry.py", line 232, in
> registerEventListener
>     self._set_default_registry ()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyatspi/registry.py", line 159, in
> _set_default_registry
>     self._set_registry (MAIN_LOOP_GLIB)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyatspi/registry.py", line 132, in
> _set_registry
>     cache = AccessibleCache (app_name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyatspi/cache.py", line 291, in
> __init__
>     self._manager = DesktopCacheManager (self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyatspi/cache.py", line 102, in
> __init__
>     obj     = bus.get_object(ATSPI_REGISTRY_NAME, ATSPI_ROOT_PATH,
> introspect=False)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 240, in
> get_object
>     follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 236, in
> __init__
>     self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 179, in
> activate_name_owner
>     self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 277, in
> start_service_by_name
>     'su', (bus_name, flags)))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 603, in
> call_blocking
>     message, timeout)
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The
> name org.a11y.atspi.Registry was not provided by any .service files
>
> what am I missing?
>
> W.P. (laurent)
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