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

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

Hi Joanie and all.
I just get a freeze while doing a google search.

While in FF I pressed ctrl+k,  typed 'linux news' and press the enter key.
After that orca stops. I open a terminal session, kill speech-dispatcher 
but orca stays mute. The solution was restart orca.
I tried to execute the same steps but the problem didn't happen again.

Seems that the problem happens when I am using firefox.
Thanks.


On 09/25/2015 11:58 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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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José Vilmar Estácio de Souza