[orca-list] Unable to start orca on debian "buster" under ChromeOS

[Marc Sabatella <marc outsideshore com>]

I had orca running on a debian "stretch" installation running within ChromeOS via the "crostini" system.  All was well as far as that went, but I recently created a new Linux container running "buster" (which is now the default for ChromeOS), and so far I can't get orca to run.  It didn't come installed by default, so I installed the "orca" package.  My first attempt to run produced an error in Gst.py that led me to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931687.  It seems this fixed but I guess not in the debian buster distribution?  So I tried the workaround of manually installing gstreamer1.0-plugins-good.  Now if I try to run it I get new errors and it still won't start.  First is about not being able to find xkbcomp, which I think I also got previously so I don't think that's the real problem.  Next is a "TIMEOUT: something has hung" in threading.py.  And finally a file not found on "lsof".

Suggestions?

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Marc Sabatella
marc outsideshore com