Re: [orca-list] Debugging a Broken Orca

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Is it absolutely necessary to recompile git versions of all the a11y
stuff too? <sigh> 

Yes, I always log into my machine as text consoles using speakup.  I
then start up gnome with startx.  I'm not ready to mess with gdm yet.
And even if I use gdm, I would want to use it on an as needed basis.

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 09:39:03AM -0300, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi.
> I do not know what could be wrong, but I am running orca generated
> from git without problems.
> Do not know if it matters, but I also recompiled atk, at-SPI2-atk
> and at-SPI2-core from git.
>
> Do you can login to your machine even without speech?
> If possible, activate a terminal session and type:
>
> orca 1>errors.1 2>erros.2
>
> The messages related to the errors should be placed in that files.
> Thanks.
>
> On 03/24/2013 08:04 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I have successfully built an arch Linux package for Orca from git but
> > before anyone gets excited about the build script, it is broken!
> > Compiled OK with automake 1.12 and speech-dispatcher 0.8 works OK when
> > I test with 'spd-say' from a command line using Speakup.  Problem is
> > when I start up gnome with 'startx', I get silence. No speech at all.
> > I cannot find the log files for Orca anymore; I used to have a
> > directory in my $HOME called .orca but I think that went away with
> > older versions so at this point, I don't know where or how to find any
> > debug output to see what is wrong.  I fell back to Orca 3.6.3 from
> > normal Arch repos and it appears to be working again.
> >
> > So can anyone get me up to speed on how to debug orca now days?  Also,
> > with both the production and git versions, I tried to run 'orca
> > --version' from a text console, thinking I would get some output in
> > the form of version information or something and in both cases, I got
> > trace back with different information from each version of the
> > program.  I can include those in a later post if desired.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm down for the count right now when it comes to running a
> > git version of Orca on my current up to date Arch Linux box.
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>
> -- 
> {}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
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