Bug#862008: crashes, segmentation fault

[Mika Hanhijärvi]

Package: gnome-orca
Version: 3.22.2-3
Severity: grave

Orca seems to sometime crash suddenly without any warning. This is not good
because blind users like me have to rely on screen reader working reliably.
This, or similar, problem also existed before the latest update to Orca in
Debian Stretch, so I do not know if this has anything to do with the latest
Orca update.

There are these lines in the /var/log/syslog

May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]: Fatal Python error:
Segmentation fault
May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]: Stack (most recent
call first):
May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]:   File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyatspi/Accessibility.py", line 184 in <lambda>
May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]:   File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/event_manager.py", line 256 in
_queuePrintln
May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]:   File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/event_manager.py", line 329 in _dequeue
May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]:   File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyatspi/registry.py", line 155 in start
May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]:   File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/orca.py", line 561 in start
May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]:   File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/orca.py", line 712 in main
May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]:   File
"/usr/bin/orca", line 269 in main
May  7 11:21:12 miksuhlaptop2 orca-autostart.desktop[3579]:   File
"/usr/bin/orca", line 272 in <module>




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-orca depends on:
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0            1.50.0-1+b1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0             3.22.11-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0           1.40.5-1
ii  gir1.2-wnck-3.0            3.20.1-3
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.22.0-1
ii  python3-brlapi             5.4-7
ii  python3-cairo              1.10.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  python3-gi                 3.22.0-2
ii  python3-louis              3.0.0-3
ii  python3-pyatspi            2.20.3+dfsg-1
ii  python3-speechd            0.8.6-4
pn  python3:any                <none>
ii  speech-dispatcher          0.8.6-4

Versions of packages gnome-orca recommends:
ii  libgail-common  2.24.31-2
ii  xbrlapi         5.4-7

gnome-orca suggests no packages.

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