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Bug 709447 - Orca segfaults when run with the wayland backend
Orca segfaults when run with the wayland backend
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie)
Orca Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-04 18:56 UTC by Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie)
Modified: 2016-06-04 16:46 UTC
See Also:
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Description Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2013-10-04 18:56:08 UTC 
Orca can provide access to some apps within wayland, but crashes upon launch if it itself run with the wayland backend.
Comment 1 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2013-10-04 20:25:39 UTC 
Seems we have a race condition. The MouseReview feature's initialization calls Wnck.Screen.get_default(). Sometimes it segfaults; sometimes it doesn't. But it segfaults often enough to get in the way of making progress on Wayland accessibility. So for now I'm commenting out the line so Orca will work with the Wayland backend while I further investigate.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=5b5d7a765a1bc0643b1937ae351a1dfb245cc40c
Comment 2 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2013-10-12 16:24:21 UTC 
Due to a gtk wayland bug, dismissing the Orca preferences dialog causes Orca to crash. Dismissing just about any dialog in a gtk wayland app has this impact, so at least we're not alone. See bug 709852.