This is a good guess, but it sounds like a corruption somewhere within the operating system. How frequent this can happen is anybody's guess since I only had my Macbook Pro now running Mountain Lion after upgrading from Lion for two weeks and had no problems at all, not even VoiceOver hanging. It has restarted itself on a couple of occasions back when I was using Lion, but this has been all but eliminated in Mountain Lion. Just my thoughts anyway. Sent from my mac
On 3 Sep 2012, at 10:53, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > I am running Mountain Lion 10.8.1 on an iMac. This is set up with a login > password. I use an external hard disk for time Machine and SuperDuper! > backups. I also use a magic trackpad. > > Recently I have had problems with VoiceOver hanging and my not being able to > restart it without sighted help. On both occasions my iMac had gone to sleep > and on waking up VoiceOver would no longer talk. So I had to power off and > restart. VoiceOver would then work fine for entering my password at login > time, and then other system startup such as a script announcing the software > level would work fine. Alas though VoiceOver remained silent. My sighted wife > then told me that the system displayed information that VoiceOver was active > but with speech muted. VO + PF8 would not open the VoiceOver utility and > Command+PF5 would not shutdown VoiceOver. So with sighted help I opened the > voiceOver utility from the applications menu and unchecked the box in the > speech section titled "speech muted". Again we tried to stop and restart > VoiceOver with Command+PF5 but with no joy. However a system shutdown and > restart caused VoiceOver to work normally again. > > It is unclear how the speech muted check box became checked. It all seemed to > happen while the iMac was in sleep mode. > > My question is how could I have recovered VoiceOver without sighted help? On > a previous occasion when i had this problem and my wife was not available I > recovered VoiceOver by booting from a month old SuperDuper! backup and then > restoring that backup onto my iMac hard disk. that all took a long time and > seemed a sledge hammer to crack a nut! > > Using the VoiceOver utility and the keyboard commander I have set up hotkeys > to mute/unmute sound, mute/unmute speech, and mute/unmute VoiceOver. Alas > these did not work when VoiceOver was hung with speech off. Also I am unclear > about the difference between mute speech and mute VoiceOver and which, if > either, relates to the speech muted check box in the VoiceOver utility. > > I would appreciate any thoughts on the above and in particular any thoughts > on how to recover from a hung VoiceOver in a less drastic way than restoring > a SuperDuper! backup. > > Many thanks. > > Paul Hopewell > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
