[raspberry-vi] Re: yasr screen-reader woes
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:42:51 +0000
The problem is Les that when it crashes it takes out my SSH connection
and the local login. So if I run a debug session that is going to also
crash before I can diagnose the problem. I have been speaking to the
developer on email and he's very keen to help me to get it going, which
is encouraging.
Mike
On 01/03/2013 09:20, lsmithso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Have you considered remote debugging with gdb? I haven't done it in
> years, but the idea is that you run a server stub on the Pi and
> connect to it from a gdb session on the host. Even if the TTS on the
> Pi crashes, you still have access to gdb on the desktop. You may have
> to cross compile to ARM on the host, but I'm not sure. My memory fails
> at this point.
>
> See here for details:
> http://davis.lbl.gov/Manuals/GDB/gdb_17.html
>
> Michael A. Ray writes:
> >
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm afraid I am having a lot of trouble with my attempts to get yasr
> > running with any degree of stability.
> >
> > I can start the screen-reader and it runs quite nicely but crashes very
> > easily, usually after only a few minutes.
> >
> > I am unable to tell whether it is crashing the whole OS or just my
> > ability to log-in. It makes the Raspi impossible to connect to with SSH
> > until a reboot.
> >
> > I have run it both from an installed package and have successfully
> > compiled it from source after kludging some errors in compile caused by
> > changes to the Gnu run-time since it was written.
> >
> > But I'm not giving up. I will continue to pour over the source-code in
> > an attempt to get it running.
> >
> > I would like to run it because in the short times it has run it has
> > proved to be quite a flexible screen-reader and is very small.
> >
> > One problem is that with it being so unstable I cannot run the Gnu
> > debugger (gdb) to try to find where and why it is failing. I will have
> > to sprinkle debug messages throughout the code. This of course
> > introduces new code and slows things down, not to mention the risk of
> > introducing new bugs.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > --
> > Michael A. Ray
> >
> > Analyst/Programmer
> > Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
> >
> > Ham Radio Callsign: G4XBF, licenced since 1982
> >
> > 'Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem' - Ockham's Razor
> >
> > Use the NVDA screen-reader, not Scientific, just Freedom:
> > http://nvda-project.org/
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--
Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
Ham Radio Callsign: G4XBF, licenced since 1982
'Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem' - Ockham's Razor
Use the NVDA screen-reader, not Scientific, just Freedom:
http://nvda-project.org/
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