I'm having problems with orca crashing when running admin apps

[Luke Yelavich]

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Hi Mike
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:48:03PM EST, mike wrote:
> Hi, I can run most of the admin apps in the root account. But for some reason Orca seems to crash quite often after I have had one opened for a short time.
> For example, the login window app seems to crash Orca as does the package manager. Is this a known problem?

Could you please outline how you manage to crash orca? A list of steps to take would be helpful, as I would like to reproduce this myself if possible.

>    One other thing. Why is it that the update manager gives a progress report when used in the root account, but in my account I get no progress report when it is downloading? The same is true when using add remove programs. The progress report is very handy, so I hope this can be corrected. If not, how about a beep instead.

This is to do with GNOME's accessibility architecture. When running update-manager from your user account, the progress report is not accessible because it is running as root. Other than setting things up to allow root accessibility windows to be usable from your user account, the only way this can be changed is by changing the update-manager code to run the UI as the user, and the actual updating as root.

Luke
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