Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca
Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 1. I've followed the instructions here:
> http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
> However, I stil do not get orca coming up at start up. gdm3
> automatically logs me in, but I did run the commands to start
> accessibility and visual accessibility both from gdm and at the user
> session. However, when gnome comes up and starts for me I must still
> start orca manually. Orca is also checked under start-up applications.
Try copying the orca.desktop file into ~/.config/autostart (creating that
directory if needed). This works for me, but I'm starting an X session with
startx from the console rather than running gdm.
>
> 2. occasionally speech-dispatcher will crash. This requires the
> speech-dispatcher and orca instance to be killed and orca restarted.
> I couldn't find anything in the /var/log/speech-dispatcher dir, but I
> only found this relevant line from my syslog:
> 15:10:26 debian-laptop kernel: [ 224.886781] sd_espeak[4932]: segfault at b4f22000
>
> I'm using the default espeak module for speech-dispatcher.
It must be a bug. You need to set ulimit -c unlimited in a shell, then start X
and Orca, then get the core file that is then created by the crash, make sure
you install debug symbols, load the core file into gdb and get a backtrace.
If you think the bug might have been fixed, you can always try
Speech-Dispatcher from its Git repository.
Another option would be to take up the issue on the speech-dispatcher list.
I don't know what's causing it, but it hasn't been widely reported on the Orca
list so I assume that other people aren't experiencing it. I'm not, but then I
don't use Orca heavily anyway.
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