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

[Andy Borka <sonfire11 gmail com>]

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?