Re: [orca-list] extremely exasperated with orca 3.27 and ubuntu mate 18.04

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Sorry you're so exasperated. Please send me a full debug.out. Thanks.
--joanie

On 03/20/2018 01:18 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
>
> I'm going to try to make this message simple to reproduce. I am having
> the following issues with orca
>
> Frequent freezes or out right crashes every minute and a half, two
> minutes maximum after the desktop is loaded. Usually orca will stabilize
> and begin working normally, but when this happens is completely random.
> Because of this, steps to reproduce are going to be difficult, but I'm
> going to try my best.Steps to reproduce
>
> Start ub ubuntu mate 18.04. A flash drive should do fine. Orca will
> start up after altwin+s is pressed. It will say "screen reader on"
> followed by nothing. After about 30 seconds, sometimes a minute, orca
> will either function normally, in other words say "desktop frame" and
> you can use the computer normally, or it will continue to do nothing
> until toggled. When toggled, orca will say "screenn reader off. Followed
> by a pause of about five seconds, followed by screen reader settings
> reloaded. If toggled again right after this, orca will occasionally see
> the desktop and you can use the computer normally. Otherwise, it will
> then say "screen reader off" and it will need to be toggled again. Once
> orca does see the desktop, it frequently stops responding after a caja
> window is opened at a folder, which exact folder doesn't matter. Orca
> doesn't usually turn off when it messes up, it just stops reading all
> applications including the desktop, but so far as I can see runs
> normally. You can toggle it, and it will come back, only to have that
> same 30 second to a minute and a half delay until it sees the desktop,
> only to then freeze again ... rince and repeat. This is beyond
> exasperating. I've reset my dconf settings at least five times, which
> fixes the problem, temporarily, but it always comes back. I suspect a
> debug log will show nothing, therefore people will be unable to see the
> problem, but I can testify absolutely that there is a problem somewhere.
> I want to try and help get this problem fixed. If a debug log will be
> useful I'll gladly provide one. Downgrading to orca 3.26 fixes the
> majority of these problems, so it's got to be something in newer
> software, but beyond that I'm clueless. I don't mean to sound so
> frustrated, but requiring an orca restart every couple of minutes when
> I'm trying to get work done is just ... agrivating.
>
>  I don't expect instantaneous performance from orca by any means, but
> even when orca works normally, performance is generally sluggish. Typing
> text into caa's location bar to complete file names works but will often
> trip up orca, causing it to stop reading but otherwise function
> normally. Navigation around the desktop is noticeably laggy, taking a
> couple of seconds from key press to response. This is with using the
> espeak ng speech synthesizer on a vizio ultrabook with 8 gb of ram, an
> intel quad core processor, model number i3-3217U, an ssd with 250 gb of
> storage, running ubuntu mate 18.04, bionic beaver, all updates
> installed, including proposed updates.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kendell Clark