Re: [orca-list] Orca not starting under 4.17.2 kernel

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

I just upgraded mine to 4.17.2 and tested Orca - all was fine. However, I
haven't upgraded Orca from the Git sources for a while. I can run the upgrade
to see whether that changes anything, which I suspect it won't.

José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
> I upgraded to version 4.17.2 and so far I have encountered no problems.
>
> Today I also updated the version of pulseaudio and for now I had no
> problems.
>
> I do not know what will happen when I reboot my machine!
>
>
> On 06/21/2018 12:44 PM, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the past 24 hours I've updated two Arch installations to latest
> > release packages which includes the 4.17.2 kernel. In both cases I'm
> > unable to get Orca to run, though the errors are a bit different in each
> > case. I suspect I'm going to resolve this by down versioning my
> > kernel--at least on one machine.
> >
> > Here's what I get ...
> >
> > Machine 1 gets speech-dispatcher errors, so that spd-say does not work.
> > Attempting to restart Orca shows:
> > $export DISPLAY=:0
> > janina@concerto 11:32:24 hwdev$orca -r
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/orca/speech.py", line 106, in
> >    init
> >        settings.speechServerInfo)
> >          File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/orca/speech.py", line 95,
> >     in _initSpeechServer
> >         raise Exception("ERROR: No speech server for factory: %s" %
> >         moduleName)
> >         Exception: ERROR: No speech server for factory:
> >         orca.speechdispatcherfactory
> >
> >         During handling of the above exception, another exception
> >         occurred:
> >
> >         Traceback (most recent call last):
> >           File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/orca/speech.py",
> >           line 112, in init
> >               _initSpeechServer(moduleName, None)
> >                 File
> >                 "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/orca/speech.py",
> >                 line 95, in _initSpeechServer
> >                     raise Exception("ERROR: No speech server for
> >                     factory: %s" % moduleName)
> >                     Exception: ERROR: No speech server for factory:
> >                     speechdispatcherfactory
> >
> > Machine 2: spd-say works as expected. This is on a late 2013 vintage
> > Apple Airbook running Arch off a USB 3.0 flash drive.
> > $export DISPLAY=:0
> > janina@toccata 11:42:40 ~$orca -r
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "/usr/sbin/orca", line 44, in <module>
> >        from orca import orca
> >          File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 81,
> >     in <module>
> >         from . import sound
> >           File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/orca/sound.py",
> >           line 163, in <module>
> >               _player = Player()
> >                 File
> >                 "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/orca/sound.py",
> >                 line 55, in __init__
> >                     self.init()
> >                       File
> >                       "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/orca/sound.py",
> >                       line 123, in init
> >                           self._pipeline.add(self._sink)
> >                           TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None
> >                           as a value
>
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