[BRLTTY] Fwd: Orca crash with grade 2 and latest versions of brltty and liblouis

[Willie Walker]

Forwarded because this appears to have been sent to just me...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Peter Torpey <ptorpey at rochester.rr.com>
> Date: June 30, 2009 12:31:14 AM EDT
> To: William.Walker at Sun.COM
> Subject: RE: [BRLTTY] Orca crash with grade 2 and latest versions of 
> brltty and liblouis
> Reply-To: ptorpey at rochester.rr.com
>
> Okay, here is what I did:
>
> # turned off braille support in Orca (but kept Orca speech running so 
> that I
> could do the rest!)
> # stopped brltty:
> Sudo /etc/init.d/brltty stop
> # restarted brltty with the debug flag:
> Brltty -ldebug
> # turned on braille support in Orca - At this point speech and braille 
> both
> worked fine
> # turned on grade 2 support in Orca - At this point, Orca crashed (as
> expected)
>
> So now, if someone can tell me where to find the debug log file, I'll 
> send
> it to the list.  I didn't find anything like brltty.log or anything 
> useful
> in /var/log.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Pete
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William.Walker at Sun.COM [mailto:William.Walker at Sun.COM]
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 8:25 PM
> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
> Cc: ptorpey at rochester.rr.com
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Orca crash with grade 2 and latest versions of 
> brltty
> and liblouis
>
> I've been working with Pete for several days trying to get him through
> various build issues and such.  I'm not quite sure what state his
> machine is in because he's tried so many things.  :-(  There may be
> things under /usr, things under /usr/local, and there may be different
> versions of different things installed in both places.
>
> I'm not convinced this can be quickly diagnosed as an Orca bug.  On
> OpenSolaris, I've had good success with the exact versions of Orca,
> liblouis (I'm using the /usr/share/liblouis/tables/en-us-g2.ctb table),
> and BrlTTY that Pete is using.
>
>> Please do what it says: add the -ldebug otion to the brltty command 
>> line
>> and have a look at the system log to get precise information about why
>> it crashed.
>
> As Samuel says - this will be quite useful.
>
> Will
>
> Mario Lang wrote:
>> "Peter Torpey" <ptorpey at rochester.rr.com> writes:
>>
>>> Orca Version 2.27.4PRE
>>>
>>> Liblouis 1.6.2
>>>
>>> Brltty 4.0
>>>
>>> The problem is that when I select grade 2 output under the Orca
> Preferences
>>> / Braille, Orca crashes.
>>> Note: When grade 2 is not selected, Orca speech (using gnome-speech 
>>> and
> IBM
>>> ViaVoice) works fine, and I get (grade 1) output to my PacMate braile
>>> display (connected via USB).
>>
>> According to your problem descritpion, this is a orca bug.
>> Since you are using a git version of Orca, you should report this to 
>> the
>> GNOME bugzilla or the orca-list.  Willie Walker is reading
>> brltty at mielke.cc as well though, maybe he can pick it up directly.
>>
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