Installing Ubuntu

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Hello, seems this list gets quite a few Ubuntu questions. Hopefully  
> it's OK if I toss out one more. Hopefully it's quick with a simple  
> solution. :)
>   

You could also try the ubuntu list at: 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

It's read by many of the same people, but at least there all ubuntu 
questions are on-topic.

> I decided to wipe my older Ubuntu install and try installing from the  
> live CD. For some reason, GDM seems to start but I'm not getting the  
> usual login sound, and I can see enough to note that the screen has  
> various shades of blue, which doesn't jive with my experiences from  
> before. :)
>   

Hm, blue? Are you sure it's not Xubuntu? :) Is this the Live CD booting 
up or after install?
> I've burned and booted the live CD, gotten Orca running and played  
> with a few applications. Things seem to work. Clicking the  
> installation icon on the desktop seems to kill speech, however. I see  
> that another window has opened, but it doesn't speak and I can't seem  
> to get Orca to offer any indications of focus change. Sorta reminds  
> me of the behavior when I'd run some graphical application requiring  
> sudo.
>   

That is precisely because the installer runs as sudo. Unfortunately we 
won't get this to Just Work for this release, but the work-around is 
fairly simple: run both Orca and the installer as root:

* Open a terminal and Enter 'sudo su'
* Kill the running version of orca
* Enter 'orca &' in the root terminal
* Enter 'ubiquity' to launch the installer
* When installation is complete you will be prompted to reboot
> Any idea as to what might be happening? I've looked at the forum, but  
> all indications seem to point to simply clicking "install." This is  
> with a current live CD as of late last night/early this morning. I've  
> tried both running orca manually, and via the "press F5, then 3"  
> method, thinking that perhaps this performed additional configuration  
> steps which I'd missed.
>   

You might even need to get a more recent version because a few days ago 
we had a fix in the installer that would launch Orca as root before 
starting itself, but the results were messy, so we decided that 
documenting a workaround would be better.

-- Actually your existing CD should work as well if you kill the running 
version of Orca just before launching the installer.

Henrik