Re: [orca-list] orca and gdm no longer playing nicely together

["John Covici" <covici ccs covici com>]

Thanks for your quick response.  Unfortunately, when I start orca by hand it says cannot start the screen 
reader, cannot connect to the desktop.

I am running 2.38.0 of at-spi2-core, if that gives you any more information.  Orca still runs fine once I log 
in, so this is really strange.

Thanks again.


-----Original Message-----
From: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> 
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 5:57 AM
To: covici ccs covici com; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] orca and gdm no longer playing nicely together

Hi John.

A while back there was a bug in which Orca + GDM no longer were
working. The bug was fixed (it wasn't an Orca bug).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/at-spi2-core/-/issues/25

In the meantime, I just committed a change to master to handle the
error you cited, but I don't think that's the the underlying problem.

HTH.
--joanie


On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 04:22 -0500, John Covici wrote:
> Hi.  After my last update orca master and gdm are not working
> together.  When I start gdm 3.36.4 orca does not start.  If I run it
> by hand in another terminal as root with DISPLAY=:0, I get the
> following traceback:
>
> [1] 4188516
> root@ccs:~ # Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/orca", line 44, in <module>
>       from orca import orca
>            File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line
> 73,
>            in <module>
>                from . import mouse_review
>                     File
>                     "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-
> packages/orca/mouse_review.py",
>                     line 620, in <module>
>                         reviewer = MouseReviewer()
>                              File
>                                 "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-
> packages/orca/mouse_review.py",
>                                 line 339, in __init__
>                                     seat =
> Gdk.Display.get_default_seat(display)
>                                     TypeError: Argument 0 does not
> allow None as a
>                                     value
>
> [1]  + exit 1     orca
>
> If I log in "blind" then orca works normally.
>
> I am using the infamous gtk+3.24.24, if that makes any difference and
> gdm 3.36.4.  The orca master is as of
> commit ee411f2f0ef9e9908ad7a48f4f4083e662b5b67e (HEAD -> master,
> origin/master, origin/HEAD)
>
> I also get from the kernel
>
> Dec 15 04:15:44 ccs.covici.com kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
>
> Any assistance on this one would be appreciated.