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

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

Hi all,

For some reason, at least on my system, if orca crashes, then it does not 
exit. Instead, it goes into some sort of loop where it uses 100% of CPU 
time until it is killed. So people may be seeing either a loop in orca or 
a crash for which AT-SPI is probably to blame.

If you are able to access the machine without orca (by using a console 
screen reader or SSHing in from another computer, etc), then it might also 
help to connect to Orca's process using gdb (running "pidof python3" or 
"ps ax |grep orca" should help you figure out which process to attach to) 
and capture a full backtrace, particularly if you see "program received 
signal 11: segmentation fault" or something similar while attaching. You 
may need to install debug packages for AT-SPI and glib/gobject (how to do 
that will vary from distro to distro).

Thanks,
-Mike