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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Regarding gstreamer, I agree about failing gracefully, but I would like
to understand the condition which is triggering the failure first. (Orca
already checks for gstreamer's availability via gobject introspection
and if it's not fails gracefully.)

--joanie

On 06/22/2018 01:22 PM, Peter Vágner via orca-list wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On the first machine speech-dispatcher is not working thus it would be
> helpfull to see its log if possible.
>
> On the second machine gstreamer is failing.
>
> Given the fact gstream is not considered hard dependency of orca we
> should try to patch such a condition to fail gracefully without
> gstreamer specific features.
>
>
> I don't have a clue on what's going on. I am suspecting this might be a
> kernel driver change possibly related to some apple specific hardware.
>
>
> In order to try to troubleshoot it further have you tried some more apps
> producing audio to see what these will end up with? For example
> speaker-test from alsa-utils?
>
>
>
> Greetings
>
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
>
> Dňa 21.06.2018 o 19:56 Janina Sajka via orca-list napísal(a):
> > Hi, Alex:
> >
> > I'm not sure the problem is the kernel, but neither am I convinced it's
> > the new pulseaudio. Recalling I am failing on two machines, let me again
> > point out that Machine 1 has a failing speech-dispatcher. My
> > speechd.conf has the following two settings:
> >
> >   AudioOutputMethod "alsa"
> >   AudioALSADevice "plughw:1,0"
> >
> > Machine 2, the Apple Airbook is a very new installation where I'm trying
> > hard to stay as close as possible to installation defaults.
> > Consequently, my speechd.conf is unedited and defaults to pulseaudio. On
> > this machine spd-say works.
> >
> > There is an additional difference on Machin 2, however. I'm running
> > speech-dispatcher-git on this machine in order to avail myself of
> > espeak-ng. So,
> >
> > In both machines I'm also running orca-git, so I guess I'm not fully
> > default install.
> >
> > Let me know anything else I should try. Thanks for your interest and
> > your help.
> >
> > Janina
> >
> >
> > Alex ARNAUD writes:
> > > Are you sure it's related to kernel ? In the last day, PulseAudio
> > > 12.0 has
> > > been released. The reported error seems related to PulseAudio.
> > >
> > > Can you try to revert PulseAudio and let me know ?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Alex.
> > >
> > > Le 21/06/2018 à 17:44, Janina Sajka via orca-list a écrit :
> > > > 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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