Re: gnome on enterprise linux

[Harry Lu <Harry Lu Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:25 -0700, DON RAIKES oracle com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry for the cross posting, but I am not sure which list is better suited to answer this problem.
> 
> I installed oracle enterprise linux 5.0.1 a while back.
> Now I want to bring gnome/orca up to a more reasonable level rather than orca-1.0.
> 
> To this end, I followed the instructions at:
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall
> 
> and all the compilations and installations worked just fine.
> 
> I set the /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility gconf key to true using gconftool-2, and ran startx.

The at-registryd is started by gnome-session. So if you don't use
gnome-session, you need to start it manually after your X is up and
before you start orca. It is /usr/lib/at-spi-registryd.


Harry

> 
> After a short period and all the disk activity stopped, I pressed alt+f2 and typed orca.
> 
> nothing happened.
> I checked my startx log file, and found the following messages:
> 
> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
> 
> (gnome-session:3945): atk-bridge-WARNING **: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup.
> 
> (gnome-session:3945): atk-bridge-WARNING **: IOR not set.
> 
> (gnome-session:3945): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/draikes.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3945
> 
> There are a lot more error messages from various applications all saying that the at_spi_registry was not started.
> 
> Is there anything else I need to do to get the at-spi-registry daemon to start?
> 
> I know that el5 is pretty old, but I am required to use it for some of my work, and need to get orca to a point where I can use it with the latest gnome-java-bridge and latest jdk's.
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