Re: [orca-list] When testing what looks like an Orca hang

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

Your great mind and my feable one are on the same track. 
Before I read this as I mentioned in my off list message with latest orca from master, not with the orca 
version from yesterday I think it was I was 
running, orca started speaking again when I ran pkill speech-dispatch. 
I checked and saw a different process number after orca went silent than I'd seen before. Obviously the 
process number changed again after kiliung the 
speech-dispatcher process. 
Perhaps if I'd forced things with the -9 I'd have gotten the same result before the orca update. 
I'll roll back in a couple minutes after I eat and check this and something else.
Is it just me, or is speech cutting off when pronouncing very long strings, i.e. long urls now in this most 
recent version of orca from master?
  
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     B.H.
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  Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:58:10PM -0400

> Hey all.
>
> Three of you have reported that Orca is hanging/freezing. And I keep not
> being able to reproduce it. In one instance, however, it looks like Orca
> is not hanging or freezing, but instead is continuing to work. Speech
> Dispatcher may have crashed though.
>
> I'm still trying to debug this because, again, I cannot reproduce it as
> reported. However, in the case of B.H.'s offending bookmark link, I did
> a quick test with spd-say: If in a terminal without Orca running I do:
>
>     spd-say "hello world"
>
> I hear "hello world". But if I replace the string in quotes with the
> full URL of doom from B.H., I hear nothing and speech-dispatcher dumps
> core. If I have Orca speak the string, however, I hear the string as
> expected. So I don't know if I'm doing something "wrong" trying to
> reproduce the problem, or if we're using different versions of
> speech-dispatcher and mine doesn't have the bug -- or doesn't have the
> bug when using speech-dispatcher's API.
>
> Regardless, for those of you experiencing what we have been assuming is
> Orca freezing/hanging, when the problem occurs please try the following:
>
> 1. Leave Orca running; do not --replace it or terminate it.
> 2. In a terminal or run dialog, type 'sudo pkill -9 speech*'
> 3. Alt+Tab around and see if Orca starts speaking again
>
> If it Orca magically resumes working just as a result of killing
> speech-dispatcher, knowing that would be helpful.
>
> In addition, if you happen to capture a full debug.out, before you send
> it to me search it for the lines which contain "SPEECH OUTPUT:" and ask
> yourself: Did I hear Orca say that? If the answer is "no", please
> include in your email the start of the series of things you didn't hear.
> If speech-dispatcher is crashing, it would be good to have some idea of
> what is making it unhappy.
>
> Thanks for all your help with this!
> --joanie
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