Re: [orca-list] orca randomly segfaults when closing pluma text editor

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,


Yes this is also happening for me however it may happen just anywhere 
e.g. in firefox, in thunderbird, in libreoffice calc.

Most frequently it happens to me when switching windows by pressing alt+tab.


As I press alt+tab I'm expecting to hear orca announcing new window as 
it gains the focus.

Instead I hear silence, my laptop fan speeds up like crazy. I know I can 
quickly open terminal and type in orca --replace .

Sometimes I can't manage to do orca --replace in the terminal quick 
enough so the whole graphical desktop gets non responsive that even 
pressing multimedia keys will stop producing sounds while pressed.

In such a case I can either login to the text only console and try to 
force killing orca or use a spare machine to SSH in and examine the 
state from there.


Heh my portable raspberry pi setup proven to be awesome at rescuing me 
in such cases. If I am doing something critical and my desktop freezes 
like this, I can boot the pi in a minute, tidy up hang processes and 
continue as normal.


Greetings


Peter




On 16.05.2016 at 12:21 Nick Wood wrote:
> Hi Kendell,
>
>
> I know it's eating CPU because the fan on my PC goes nuts.  I have no 
> usable sight so don't know whats actually happening on screen.
>
>
> However, if I use another PC to SSH into the machine I can see Orca 
> using all the CPU.  If I kill Orca remotely, I can then go back to the 
> actual machine and get Orca back up with Alt+Super+S.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> On 16/05/16 09:17, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi
> > It could be an orca issue, but it could not be. Joanie will know for
> > sure once she has time to look into this, I think she's asleep at the
> > moment. I haven't noticed the cpu usage, but I depend so much on orca
> > that if it stops speaking my first task is to get it back so I can use
> > my computer. I'm guessing you can see enough to notice though? I've seen
> > very high cpu usage from orca in applications like seamonkey and
> > firefox. I can't remember if joanie made some changes to fix it or if
> > she just suggested closing the apps. Actually, I think it was high
> > memory and cpu usage, but I can't remember for sure.
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
> > Nick Wood wrote:
> > > Hi Kendell,
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, happens with Leafpad, though in my case its more like Orca gets
> > > itself hung up in an endless loop that uses up the CPU and makes the
> > > system unresponsive.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm not sure which desktop environment Leafpad comes from - I use it
> > > on Fedora because its a nice fast text editor, and for my purposes it
> > > was a lot more responsive than gedit.
> > >
> > > I have two Fedora installations, both running Orca master. One is
> > > Fedora 22, the other Fedora 23.  Issue only happens on Fedora 23,
> > > which makes me think its not directly an Orca issue but maybe a
> > > component elsewhere (ATSPI?)
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > >
> > > Nick
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 16/05/16 08:24, kendell clark wrote:
> > > > hi
> > > > It happens with leafpad as well? I've used it before, isn't that the
> > > > text editor for ... is it xfce?
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Kendell Clark
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Nick Wood wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a similar issue with the text editor Leafpad.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Sometimes when closing Leafpad, Orca stops speaking.  I don't 
> > > > > think it
> > > > > crashes, but it seems to go into some kind of loop where it uses up
> > > > > all available CPU.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have to kill Orca at the console and then restart it, and all is
> > > > > well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Unfortunately I can't reproduce it every time and as yet I haven't
> > > > > found a specific pattern that causes it, which is why I haven't
> > > > > reported it previously.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Nick
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 16/05/16 07:07, kendell clark wrote:
> > > > > > hi list
> > > > > > THis is an odd bug. It doesn't happen all the time and I can't 
> > > > > > seem to
> > > > > > find a set of steps to make it happen, but seemingly randomly, orca
> > > > > > will
> > > > > > close and stop speaking after closing pluma. This only happens with
> > > > > > pluma, the mate text editor, and not gedit or any other. I'm not
> > > > > > completely sure if it segfaults, but speech doesn't come back, and
> > > > > > I've
> > > > > > waited up to five minutes. To get it back I have to run
> > > > > > orca--replace in
> > > > > > the command dialog. Using the shortcut for some reason doesn't work.
> > > > > > This is using orca master, completely up to date as of fifteen 
> > > > > > minutes
> > > > > > ago, on sonar linux mate edition. Can anyone else confirm this? I
> > > > > > believe this happens on stable as well. Again it's not constant.
> > > > > > Joanie,
> > > > > > I believe you can test this one in fedora because pluma is
> > > > > > available in
> > > > > > the repositories.
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > Kendell Clark
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