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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey José, all.

Thanks for trying. Seems we have both a speech-dispatcher and <something
else> bug on our hands. I still cannot reproduce this, so I reviewed all
the debug.outs sent thus far and added some sanity checks and still more
debugging output. If I'm lucky, the sanity checks will prevent the
problem; if not, maybe the more verbose output will point me closer to
the source of the issue.

Long way of saying: Everyone testing for this problem please pull master
and keep testing. And the resulting debug.out output continues to be
very much wanted.

As always, I really appreciate it!
--joanie

On 09/26/2015 08:23 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> 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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