Bug#948442: gdm3: Unable to enable Orca

[Boris Daix]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.22.3-3+deb9u1sci9u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

my operator gave me that Debian system with BRLTTY installed but that's
all.  As a blind user I usually switch to a non-graphical TTY and log in
to work.  However I would like to enable Orca for gdm3 so that I can use
GNOME and other graphical applications.  I tried the following commands
but none of them made gdm3 speak.  Package gnome-orca is installed.
Sound is switched on, I checked it with mpg321.  I also tried Ctrl-Alt-s
on gdm3 but it doesn't do anything.

  $ sudo -u Debian-gdm gconftool --type bool \
	 --set /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled true

or

  $ sudo -u Debian-gdm 'eval $(dbus-launch) ; export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID ; GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-reader-enabled true'

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.11
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                       0.6.43-1
ii  adduser                               3.115
ii  dconf-cli                             0.26.0-2+b1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend               0.26.0-2+b1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.61
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                        3.22.3-3+deb9u1sci9u1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]     3.22.3-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                     3.22.3-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                 3.22.2-2+deb9u2sci9u1
ii  gnome-shell                           3.22.3-3sci9u2
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.22.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas             3.22.0-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                   0.6.43-1
ii  libaudit1                             1:2.6.7-2
ii  libc6                                 2.24-11+deb9u4
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                    0.30-3
ii  libcanberra0                          0.30-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                    2.36.5-2+deb9u2
ii  libgdm1                               3.22.3-3+deb9u1sci9u1
ii  libglib2.0-0                          2.50.3-2+deb9u1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                        2.50.3-2+deb9u1
ii  libgtk-3-0                            3.22.11-1
ii  libkeyutils1                          1.5.9-9
ii  libpam-modules                        1.1.8-3.6
ii  libpam-runtime                        1.1.8-3.6
ii  libpam-systemd                        232-25+deb9u12
ii  libpam0g                              1.1.8-3.6
ii  librsvg2-common                       2.40.16-1+b1
ii  libselinux1                           2.6-3+b3
ii  libsystemd0                           232-25+deb9u12
ii  libwrap0                              7.6.q-26
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1
ii  libxau6                               1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxcb1                               1.12-1
ii  libxdmcp6                             1:1.1.2-3
ii  lsb-base                              9.20161125
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]             3.22.3-2
ii  policykit-1                           0.105-18+deb9u1
ii  ucf                                   3.0036
ii  x11-common                            1:7.7+19
ii  x11-xserver-utils                     7.7+7+b1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           327-2

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core    2.22.0-6+deb9u1
ii  desktop-base    9.0.2+deb9u1
ii  x11-xkb-utils   7.7+3+b1
ii  xserver-xephyr  2:1.19.2-1+deb9u5
ii  xserver-xorg    1:7.7+19
ii  zenity          3.22.0-1+b1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.22.2-3
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.20.0-3

-- debconf information:
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3

-- 
Boris Daix

Maîtrise d'OuvrAge Système d'Information Scientifique
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