GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 608544
Firefox crashes with NO speech!
Last modified: 2010-04-05 03:26:42 UTC
Created attachment 152641 [details] Debug log during the crash This is unfortunately not easily repeatable but serious non the less. Occasionally and more frequently lately, Firefox will crash with some kind of dialog and no speech from orca. I am attaching a debug log to this bug report to show the several backtraces which happened. 1. Launch gnome and Orca in the usual way. 2. Go to the desktop and launch Firefox. 3. While the default page is showing, start arrowing around in the text and especially in the table area. 4. For me this morning, I finally lost speech while pressing the up arrow key. On other occasions, I have lost speech while using table navigation keys. 5. If I hit the escape at this point, Firefox goes away and Orca returns with full speech. While attempting to file this bug earlier, I lost speech completely and had to restart gnome to get things going. This seems to be happening with greater frequency lately so I will need to file this as a critical bug. Orca from git 2010-01-29, Firefox 3.5.7, Arch-Linux on 32 bit architexture with latest updates.
Steve on the Orca list you indicated that you could get out of this situation by pressing Escape to make the mystery dialog go away. I'm quite curious as to what the mystery dialog is. Therefore, the next time the problem appears, would you please try the following before you press Escape: 1. Press Alt+Print screen to take a screen shot 2. Press Return (for the default button Save in the Save Screenshot dialog. 3. Press Escape to recover as you described on the list. 4. Look around for the screenshot. I believe the location defaults to being the same, so if you took a screenshot when everything was working correctly, you should be able to identify where the screenshot will wind up when you have no speech. If you're able to do this, please attach the screenshot to this bug. Thanks!
Changing to NEEDINFO because I cannot reproduce it, and I'd really like the screenshot I mentioned in my previous comment if that would be possible.
Yeah so would I. Since I filed this thing, I can't make it happen anymore. It blew up multiple times over that weekend but since then, I installed FF 3.6.2 and then just now fell back to 3.5.7 due to all the other bugs and I haven't had the occurence with either version since. The only difference is now when I run FF 3.5.7, I am using a binary from Mozilla where the other 3.5.7 version was from an Arch Linux package but I can't downgrade to that version anymore due to other package dependencies. So if this can't h=happen anymore for the next week or so, I may have to close it.
Steve, has this bug happened again? Thanks!
Nope. See my comment #3. I did get an error dialog from a completely different app with no speech but will probably have to file a new bug on that and try and gather soem background data to repro that one.
Thanks Steve. I just wanted to verify that you were no longer seeing this bug since you had indicated you'd close this bug out if you couldn't reproduce it. I'll do that now. Sorry to hear about the new/different issue. :-( But, yeah, please collect as much data as you can and let's see about getting it resolved.