This is what happens when I try to start gnopernicus: ** ERROR **: file accessible.c: line 495 (spi_accessible_construct): assertion failed: (o) aborting... Bonobo accessibility support initialized GTK Accessibility Module initialized Festival is also installed. Emerged gnopernicus with -java since app-accessibility/java-access-bridge-1.4.2 had problems compiling. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r11 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Sep 2 2004, 18:07:59)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe -march=k8" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe -march=k8" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/private_overlay /usr/local/kde_overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bootsplash bzlib caps cddb cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dnd doc dvd eds encode esd evo f77 faac fbcon ffmpeg font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype gcj gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glade glitz glut gmail gmp gnome gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl icq imap imlib imlib2 jabber java jit jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime mmap mmx mmx2 mng mono mozilla mpeg mpeg4 msn mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia objc offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oscar pam pdflib perl plotutils png postgres pthreads python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdk sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl stencil-buffer svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts uml unicode usb utf8 v4l v4l2 x86 xml2 xv xvid zlib" Unset: LDFLAGS
Here's a similar report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162676
What version of gnopernicus do you have? What version of glib? What version of gtk+? Also, please try to provide a backtrace from the process. And finally, what are the problems with java-access-bridge? Did you open a bug report for that?
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