Re: [orca-list] Orca gone wild: crashed; had to reinstall ubuntu

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I've seen this before. In my case, it's as if the caps-lock key is
stuck, at least as far as Orca is concerned. Every key press behaves as
if you're holding down the Orca key, or caps-lock in my case where I'm
using the laptop keyboard layout. I don't think I've seen it in a while,
but I think I get out of it by hitting Orca+backspace to pass the next
key through and then pressing the caps-lock key to unstick it.

On 31/01/12 17:50, Andy Borka wrote:
> Here is an interesting one for you. I was running ubuntu 11.10 with orca
> master (3.3.5). I had voxin installed as well. I had installed hplib
> 3.1.x for my network printer. I then experimented with an ocr program
> called ocr reader(?). After a few times of scanning something, I deleted
> everything in my downloads folder since I didn't need the stuff in there
> anymore. After I did that orca went wild. I would press the space bar,
> and it would start preferences. I would press the letter s, and it would
> mute itself. Pressing e did something else, but I don't remember right
> now what it was. I then restarted. Orca didn't start, so I started it in
> the run window (alt+f2). I ended up getting the setup wizard. Uh, OK?
> this is strange... I went through the wizard. When I got to the do you
> want to logout? question, I pressed y and then enter. Nothing happened.
> I figured it was one of those bugs where you didn't automatically get
> signed out, so I pressed ctrl+alt+del for the logout screen. I pressed
> space and got signed out. When I signed in again, still no orca. I ran
> it again through the run box. I ended up with the setup wizard again. I
> couldn't get it running again. I wanted to do a repair, but couldnt find
> anything on how to do that. I then tried to upgrade to the same version
> hoping it would fix whatever went wrong. The installer crashed right at
> the end (96%). I had to resort to reinstalling like a new setup. How
> painful, but it was fun experience either way. This sets me back two
> days in my homework for the week, but I have somewhat of a light load
> this week. Does anyone know what might have went wrong?
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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain gmail com