Re: [orca-list] Please read if quitting apps makes Orca crash, hang, etc.

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hmmmm.... Ok. Let me think some more. Thanks!
--joanie

On 05/31/2016 07:52 AM, Max wrote:
> Hi Joanye.
>
> Yes, the same number.
>
> Joanmarie Diggs пишет:
> > Hi Max.
> >
> > Thanks for trying. Since I cannot reproduce the problem, I'm having to
> > play some guessing games. But what your debug.out files suggest is that
> > Orca can no longer talk to the registry. Could you please see if the
> > registry PID is changing or not? Specifically:
> >
> > 1. When everything is good, do the following in a terminal:
> > pgrep -f at-spi2-registryd -u `id -u`
> >
> > 2. Use Orca, cause the hang to occur.
> >
> > 3. Quit and restart Orca with orca -r
> >
> > 4. When things are working again, use that same command from step 1:
> > pgrep -f at-spi2-registryd -u `id -u`
> >
> > Is the number you get from step 1 the same as the number you get from
> > step 4?
> >
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 05/31/2016 01:55 AM, Max wrote:
> > > Hi Joanye, All.
> > >
> > > I accidentally managed to reproduce this oddity again. "Orca" is not
> > > said goodbye to me, had to use the "orca -r". Ie all the same as in the
> > > debug files :(.
> > >
> > > Joanmarie Diggs пишет:
> > > > Hey all.
> > > >
> > > > I still cannot reproduce the problems some of you have, where things
> > > > like quitting apps causes Orca to crash, hang, etc. However, if Orca is
> > > > running and I kill the registry daemon process manually, Orca does
> > > > hang.
> > > > So I've just committed a change to Orca master which will detect that
> > > > condition -- if you have enabled the customization -- and shutdown when
> > > > the registry is believed to have crashed.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, we of course still want to know why the registry is crashing,
> > > > assuming that's what's happening to you. And if possible, it would be
> > > > nice if Orca could recover on your behalf. I'll look into these things
> > > > later today after I get some sleep. In the meantime, it would be great
> > > > if those of you experiencing the problem could pull master and add the
> > > > following to your orca_customizations.py:
> > > >
> > > > import orca.settings
> > > > orca.settings.checkForRegistryCrash = True
> > > >
> > > > Then restart Orca.
> > > >
> > > > If, when you reproduce the problem, Orca says goodbye (hopefully) and
> > > > quits (the process is not in the list of running processes), then the
> > > > problem you are experiencing is almost certainly the AT-SPI2 registry
> > > > crashing and not Orca going into some loop somewhere. Knowing
> > > > whether or
> > > > not this is the case will be helpful.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > --joanie
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