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

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi.
Seems that the problem was caused because speech-dispatcher was updated 
to version 8 and orca 3.6 is not compatible with that version.

On 03/11/2013 06:04 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> 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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{}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza