Re: [orca-list] Orca breaking on superuser [on Accessible Coconut accesssible distro w/latest orca-master]

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

The sudo command has some command line switches.  The sudo -H -i command
may be useful or sudo -i command or sudo -E command.

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018,
Jace Kattalakis via orca-list wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:05:02
> From: Jace Kattalakis via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> Reply-To: Jace Kattalakis <khalfang1366 gmail com>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] Orca breaking on superuser [on Accessible Coconut
>     accesssible distro w/latest orca-master]
>
> Caveat: This may be a distro specific issue, I only have one distro to test
> but I can reproduce this consistently. I actually discovered it while setting
> up youtube-dl config inPluma.
>
>
> 1. Open any program, for instance, Pluma with sudo. Orca will not read
> anything as it's a blank document. Open a menu and scroll around, type
> something,Orca will not react.
>
> 2. Close Pluma.
>
>
> 3. orca --replace
>
>
> Orca should restart and say screenreader on, correct? It doesn't. It won't
> restart at all, and typing orca, orca --replace or hitting super+alt+S will
> not restart it.
>
> I'm unable to get a debug log or this one as it stops after I do th sudo
> <program> command and won't log anything else
>
> Caveats: I'm using orca-master
>
>
> I'm using a customized Ubuntu based accessible distro
>
>
> This only happens on graphical programs, not terminal based apps, so far I've
> run into it in Pluma, Grub customizer, Auacity, and any graphical program that
> requires superuser access. Amusingly I ran into it on a live session installer
> once.
>
> Caveat #3: I'll provide links. To test this, you'll need virtualbox, so get
> that, then go to cococfrix.com and go down to download, and get the latest
> iso, it ships with 3.29.9 pre but I'm using Orca-master for this...and yes I
> did test with the default version that distro shipped with, same end result.
> I've told the guy who puts the distro together with no response yet so I
> thought I'd ask you smart lot here to see if it's an Orca issue, an Accessible
> Coconut issue, or it's only on my laptop and no other systems at all.
>
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