Re: orca crashes
Willie Walker wrote: I'm not sure it is a gnome-speech bug. I think it might be an eSpeak build/configuration bug. I just wrote some notes up at the end of this page for Gutsy users: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Speech Please try them out and let me know how they work. Works, but in the stable version of Portaudio 19, Alsa support doesn't work. I tried the last portaudio19-development svn build. Alsa is working fine here, but same crashes as with the ubuntu portaudio package. So, I think it's a bug in either eSpeak or Portaudio, any thaughts? It would be really nice to have eSpeak working with alsa, because I'm running this on a laptop with a crappy intel/realtek hd-audio soundcard which doesn't support hardware mixing. Bram ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Re: orca crashes
I'm not sure it is a gnome-speech bug. I think it might be an eSpeak build/configuration bug. I just wrote some notes up at the end of this page for Gutsy users: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Speech Please try them out and let me know how they work. Will On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 23:42 +0200, Bram Duvigneau wrote: Willie Walker wrote: I see the same thing as well, and I believe it is the eSpeak driver crashing. :-( Yes, when I'm using with braille only, it's rock-solid, so to say. I'd like to help fixing this bug, how could I give the gnomespeech developers more information? Bram ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Re: orca crashes
Hi Bram: I see the same thing as well, and I believe it is the eSpeak driver crashing. :-( Will On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:40 +0200, Bram Duvigneau wrote: Hi all, I just installed ubuntu gutsy on a test system. However, after a while, orca crashes. Sometimes it's after a few seconds, or a few minutes, the crashes seem to be totally random. It could be a crash of the gnomespeech espeak driver, because the last braille output is still on the display for a while and switches to screen not in text mode after some time. Any ideas what's happening here? Bram ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Re: orca crashes
I'm also seeing some atspi registry crashes that are hanging Orca. I cannot reliably predict them, however. :-( Hi Bram: I see the same thing as well, and I believe it is the eSpeak driver crashing. :-( Will On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:40 +0200, Bram Duvigneau wrote: Hi all, I just installed ubuntu gutsy on a test system. However, after a while, orca crashes. Sometimes it's after a few seconds, or a few minutes, the crashes seem to be totally random. It could be a crash of the gnomespeech espeak driver, because the last braille output is still on the display for a while and switches to screen not in text mode after some time. Any ideas what's happening here? Bram ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Re: orca crashes
I have seen at-spi-registryd hang on my box and causes Orca hangs. I already have a patch for this but not sure if it can fix all the hangs. Please file a bug and paste the trace if you find any hang or crash. Thanks, Li 在 2007-07-31二的 12:03 -0400，Joanmarie Diggs写道： I'm also seeing some atspi registry crashes that are hanging Orca. I cannot reliably predict them, however. :-( Hi Bram: I see the same thing as well, and I believe it is the eSpeak driver crashing. :-( Will On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:40 +0200, Bram Duvigneau wrote: Hi all, I just installed ubuntu gutsy on a test system. However, after a while, orca crashes. Sometimes it's after a few seconds, or a few minutes, the crashes seem to be totally random. It could be a crash of the gnomespeech espeak driver, because the last braille output is still on the display for a while and switches to screen not in text mode after some time. Any ideas what's happening here? Bram ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Help recovering from orca crashes.
Hi, all. Ok, well I have been running orca 0.25 with gnome-speech 0.4.0 and festival and Dectalk 5. I've noticed orca crashes quite often unexpectedly, and the only way to get speech back is to reboot from scratch. Some notes about the problem. When orca crashes all sound, speech, and system sounds are completely stopped. When logging out, and back in the desktop sound effects are totally silent and won't work. Also opening gnome-terminal and doing aplay path-tofile/some-sound.wav refuses to play the wav file I attempt to point aplay to. My theory is when orca crashes and even if orca itself is completely killed there is still some background process that has ahold of the sound card. So the next time I log in and start x nothing can access the sound card. I've noticed even at a shell emacspeak and other apps won't work either using the sound card. First, is there anyway to fix this without a total reboot? Second, do I need to file a bugzilla report on this? I'm certain someone else has had to have this problem as it happens both with festival and dectalk so I can't blame the sinth for the lock. It's either orca or gnome-speech which is my guess. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Re: Help recovering from orca crashes.
A minor error in my last message. That should have been killall -9. Also, you will need to of course restart orca after doing this. Mike Mike Pedersen wrote: Hello Thomas, Ok, well I have been running orca 0.25 with gnome-speech 0.4.0 and festival and Dectalk 5. I've noticed orca crashes quite often unexpectedly, and the only way to get speech back is to reboot from scratch. This may be a case of the entire desktop getting hung. We have made changes recently to greatly improve this problem. Are you at least running orca 0.2.5? If this happens, try switching to another vertual terminal for example with: CTRL+ALT+F1 and kill -9 orca and festival-synthesis-driver. Stability is always a top priority for the orca team so more work will be coming in this area very soon. Mike ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Re: Help recovering from orca crashes.
Hello, Mike. Mike Pedersen wrote: This may be a case of the entire desktop getting hung. That is a strong possability. I noticed when orca goes I can't even get to run and open gnome-terminal and often I have to control+alt+f1 over to a shell to kill orca to get gnome freed up. Are you at least running orca 0.2.5? Yes, I am. After getting Ubuntu setup and working I used Willie Walker's Orca tutorial and grabbed gnome-speech 0.4.0 and orca 0.25 from gnome ftp, uninstalled the Ubuntu packages, and compiled, and installed from source. So my versions of orca and gnome-speech are up-to-date with ftp current stable releases. If this happens, try switching to another vertual terminal for example with: CTRL+ALT+F1 and kill -9 orca and festival-synthesis-driver. So as I understand it if I am running with festival the command would be killall -9 orca killall -9 festival-synthesis-driver Is that correct? Stability is always a top priority for the orca team so more work will be coming in this area very soon. Great. I can't wait for some more stability. I like the guys you are doing, but orca needs more stability before it will be my day to day solution. Thanks. Mike ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Re: Help recovering from orca crashes.
Mike Pedersen wrote: A minor error in my last message. That should have been killall -9. Also, you will need to of course restart orca after doing this. Thanks I caught that the first time, but I am glad you sent the correction anyway. Smile. Mike ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
