Re: [orca-list] GNOME Broken again on my System - WTF!

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

I don't know about  your pulse issues at all. 
If you run script, or pipe stdout on tty12 where you run startx to a file, what does it show when you start 
gnome?
On the surface of things it seems like a temporary fix/work around would be to try rolling back the xorg 
updates and or 
the kernel. 
I've had no issues with 3.16, 
There were quite a few changes/improvements to gpu support inclluding accelleration, and some audio driver 
stuff as well, 
so depending on your hardware maybe something effects you with this kernel. I had one kernel update cause me 
problems 
maybe 6 months ago, think it ws one of the 3.13 kernels, but may have been 3.14 I suppose. I rolled the 
kernel back and 
all was well. Maybe two updates later I tried the new kernel version, and all was well. In fairness I only 
tried to startx  
a couple of times, and did not investigate things at all before rolling back. 
--
B.H.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:31:29AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> This may seem like a long story but I haven't run Orca for several
> days but after my most recent Arch Linux pacman update to kernel
> 3.16.1 and recent changes to xorg server, I seem to have major
> problems getting Orca or gnome for that matter to work now. First off
> Pulse is raising its ugly head again and screwing everything up so I
> took it out of the way for now and configured speech-dispatcher to use
> alsa as its audio output module. So now I have speech-dispatcher and
> emacspeak working again. However, when I start gnome with the startx
> command from tty12 on my system, Orca reads OK but I get a message
> saying something like "An error was encountered and all extensions
> were stopped. Only button available then is "Logout" I have to read
> these messages with flat review of Orca. I don't see any obvious
> errors and when I go into journalctl -r to read any system wide
> errors, I can't find anything that tells me anything I didn't know
> yesterday.
>
> If I re-enable pulseaudio by making the binary executable again and
> config speechd to use pulse, then running startx attempts to run the
> xorg environment but I get total silence. I hit space onece and that
> logged me out. This makes me think it is getting the same error but
> since pulse is fucked up[, I cannot confirm this error message 
>
> This all seemed to work a few days ago and Orca versions don't seem to
> make any difference. I tried orca-3.12.2 and a git build of
> orca-3.13.90 something I built the other night.
>
> Any idea what may be broken here? do I have to rebuild my system to
> figure this out; I hope answer to this last question is no.:).
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