Re: [orca-list] Whonix and Orca Error



I will be trying this later.

The creator of Whonix emailed me back and provided me with this link where he updated their wiki:


This seems like it will still be installing the old version of orca, correct? 

Anyone have anything in particular I need to pass on to him as for what specifically needs to be done for the next release of Whonix with regard to orca?

Thank you,

-Reece 

On Dec 29, 2020, at 6:35 AM, Peter Vágner <pvagner pvagner tk> wrote:

Hello,


Yes, I am suggesting to paste that gst-launch command into a terminal and hitting enter.

A generated 440 HZ tone should start playing. To stop it press ctrl+c .

If you get that sound then gstreamer is working on your system and this is most likelly outdated orca package packaged in whonix.

On some distros the package is named gnome-orca on others it's just orca . Looking at debian buster gnome-orca is just transitional package which in turn installs orca.

Also further look to the debian's apt-cache reveals that debian buster includes orca 3.31.1 . And that's definatelly too old when it comes to this particular issue.

I understand that whonix suggests and installs packages from the debian stable branch.


Luckily and huge thanks to Samuel and other great people on the debian a11y team there is orca 3.38 in the buster backports.

And yeah, whonix has a paragraph on installing packages from debian backports on their wiki, so if you can, try following this little one: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Install_Software#Backports



Greetings


Peter


Dňa 29. 12. 2020 o 11:59 Reece O'Bryan napísal(a):
Just to clarify what you mean before attempting it, you mean to run those commands in the terminal and see if the output a sound? I am just clarifying that you are not talking about if I can output sound such as from a browser, etc.

I was thinking that it was a version issue when I couldn’t even check that. I will be attempting to get it to make sound in a few hours when I have cited assistance. With or without that working, would it be a temporary fix to install a different version of orca such as gnome?


Thank you,

-Reece 

On Dec 29, 2020, at 4:12 AM, Peter Vágner <pvagner pvagner tk> wrote:

Hello,


The issue is that it is not somehow possible to initialize gstreamer in your environment.

Some sanity checks have been added in orca 3.36.6 so if you are running that version or more up to date one, then this should be fixed for you.

Can you try if you can play some sounds with gst-launch?

gst-launch-1.0 audiotestsrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! pulsesink


Here is the related orca issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/issues/161


Greetings


Peter


Dňa 29. 12. 2020 o 0:16 Reece O'Bryan via orca-list napísal(a):
Hi,

Spoke with the developer of and he recommended to run the following:

Dsudo apt update
Dsudo apt install orca

The download seemed to work, yet when trying to run or even running the command to check the version I received the following error, “AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_bus'”

does anyone have an idea of how I can fix this? Do I need to try a different version of orca or what do you think the problem is?

Thank you,

-Reece 
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