Re: [orca-list] Arch+orca stopped talking to me

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi,

Are you running spd-say from the console or from a terminal inside of x?
This sort of thing has happened to me before and I recall that it seemed to
make a difference in isolating the problem if you tested speech dispatcher
from your x session or from the console session.  

What happens when you do an orca --q followed by an orca --R?  Does Orca at
least announce that it is up?  Do you have a sighted friend who can confirm
whether or not, for instance, the orca preferences dialog comes up?  Trying
to deduce if Orca is up but not talking or refuses to come up period.  Sorry
to hear you're having a rough time over there.  Have you tried uninstalling
and reinstalling Orca?  I don't know how Arch handles it but, Debian and
Ubuntu have purge arguments in the apt-get command that get rid of all
config files so you get a completely whistle clean install when you
reinstall something.  Does Arch do something like that or do you have to do
it all manually piece by piece yourself?  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:43 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: [orca-list] Arch+orca stopped talking to me

I updated my Arch Linux system 2 days ago and found after a power failure
early yesterday morning that Orca is no longer speaking. Typing something
like

spe-say hello

at a command prompt still speaks "hello," but I get nothing at all from
orca. I am running Orca 3.6.3-2 from the standard repos; not running git
master. I get absolutely no output from orca while it is running.

orca >&outfile

in the gnome terminal and

tail -f outfile

from a speakup-enabled console is producing absolutely nothing. I have also
tried eracing my entire ~/.local/share/orca directory, but have had no luck.
I am using my openSUSE virtual machine to write this, as Orca still works
there. Any help is greatly appreciated.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
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