Bug 797442 – gnome-base/gdm: accessibility features no longer working in 40.0 or above

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John Covici 2021-06-22 06:22:27 UTC]

When starting gdm, orca no longer starts

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
emerge orca and gdm and orca's dependencies like speech-dispatcher and at-spi stack.  start gdm1.
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Actual Results:  
no speech or Braille output

Expected Results:  
speech and/or Braille output

This works correctly with gdm 3.36.4-r1 but not with 40.0 or above and now 3.36.4-r1 has been removed from the tree.

[Comment 1 John Covici 2021-06-22 06:25:13 UTC]

Created attachment 717561 [details]
emerge info

[Comment 2 Matt Turner 2021-07-23 19:54:05 UTC]

Dang, sorry about that.

I don't really know how to test this. Can you tell me how I can test?

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2023-11-15 15:43:09 UTC]

(In reply to Matt Turner from comment #2)
> Dang, sorry about that.
> 
> I don't really know how to test this. Can you tell me how I can test?

[Comment 4 John Covici 2023-11-15 17:31:35 UTC]

hmm, get orca and its dependencies and you should get speech when you run gdm, this does assume you have sound on the computer.

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2023-11-24 15:05:47 UTC]

(In reply to John Covici from comment #4)
> hmm, get orca and its dependencies and you should get speech when you run
> gdm, this does assume you have sound on the computer.

It seems to work fine with gdm[accessibility]

Thanks for the feedback

[Comment 6 John Covici 2023-11-24 16:49:23 UTC]

accessibility is set, but orca is not even started when gdm is started, so how did you get this to work at all?

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2023-11-26 09:26:07 UTC]

(In reply to John Covici from comment #6)
> accessibility is set, but orca is not even started when gdm is started, so
> how did you get this to work at all?

It gets started and it speaks to me 

Are you sure you got gdm rebuilt with accessibily USE flag? /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop does the starting of orca

[Comment 8 John Covici 2023-11-26 10:30:06 UTC]

Well, the autostart file is not executed at all, I put >/var/lib/gdm/orca.txt and the file is unchanged since several years.  I guess that is the bug.  Anyway to get some debugging here?

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2023-11-26 10:38:04 UTC]

I would look at "journalctl -e" output just after restarting gdm

Also, what is the output of "emerge -Opv gdm gnome-shell pulseaudio pipewire"?

[Comment 10 John Covici 2023-11-26 13:17:02 UTC]

Created attachment 875713 [details]
log of gdm startup

complete log of starting gdm.  Also, gdm keeps insisting to use tty1 but I have a unit in /etc/systemd/system indicating to start using tty12, but its not working.

[Comment 11 Pacho Ramos 2023-11-27 12:06:20 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #9)
> Also, what is the output of "emerge -Opv gdm gnome-shell pulseaudio
> pipewire"?

Can you also show this?

Also, I would try to let gdm start in the tty it wants to try to only cover one issue at a time