Re: [orca-list] lost speech upgrading from jessie to stretch

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

If you can get into a terminalHave you tried orca --replace yet?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:

> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:20:26
> From: Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>
> To: Orca List <orca-list gnome org>
> Subject: [orca-list] lost speech upgrading from jessie to stretch
>
> Greetings!  Apologies to anybody who saw a variant of this post on the Blinux 
> list, but this list seems a reasonable place to ask for help with at least 
> the Orca part of my problem.
>
> Yesterday, after a fair bit of reading, rereading, and following what looked 
> like relevant advice from that reading, I ran the upgrade from jessie to 
> stretch.  I used "apt-get dist-upgrade."  It seemed to be successful in most 
> respects; it didn't abort, anyway.
>
> When I rebooted, I got what clearly were a bunch of Speakup messages. 
> Apparently, the upgrade enabled espeakup.service, which I had disabled in 
> order to run my own script for getting speakup.  At no point did I get Orca, 
> not even using the super-alt-s keystroke.
>
> When I got myself into a terminal, I tried disabling espeak.servvice. When I 
> rebooted, there was no speakup, but also no orca; again, the keystroke to 
> bring it up did not work.
>
> I went into a text terminal, which of course was speechless.  I tried 
> enabling espeakup.service again, just to get some kind of speech, but this 
> failed.  I tried a couple more times.  (I know I was in a terminal because 
> the poweroff command did shut the machine do2wn.)
>
> I suspectt there's this particular thing or two I need to fix, but I don't 
> know what that is and have no speech anywhere to find out.  At the very 
> least, I'd like to get Orca talking, and then maybe I can retrieve my 
> previous speakup set-up.  I'll be grateful for any help.
>
> Al
>
> [p.s. I've read the accessibility section about disabling pulseaudio.  I may 
> do that again, but when I did it the last time it preventing my listening to 
> an online radio station, hence the script for using speakup after I was 
> logged in via the gui.  I hope to use speakup with my Tripletalk LT, but that 
> will come later.
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