Bug#900326: nvidia-driver: Nvidia 390.48.3 install erroneously enables Orca screen reader.

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 28 May 2018 22:30:06 -0700 rich hartley <haratley at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Package: nvidia-driver
> Version: 390.48-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> Installed Nvidia driver 390.48.3 and dependencies from Debian non
free repos.
> 
> Reboot.
> 
> Orca screen reader spontaneously enabled itself for log in screen and
there is
> no way to turn it off.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> Uninstalled Orca via Synaptic.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> System would not boot. Grub screen comes up, select Debian and screen
blinks
> grey/black/grey/black.
> Also tried to boot to Debian recovery mode. Same problem. Lots of
verbose
> verbage rolls past and then the system fails to boot.
> Eventually reinstalled Debian via netinstall cd, same issue. Open
source video
> driver, no Orca. Installed Nvidia, Orca starts yapping but only at
the login
> screen.
> 
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> That Orca would shut up.

This sounds... strange. There is nothing anywhere referencing Orca. Are
you _sure_ that it wasn't due to some other package?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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