Package: synaptic Version: 0.84.2 Severity: grave Synaptic often freezes the Orca screen reader so that Orca speaks nothing until Synaptic is closed. The same happens on both of my laptops running Debian Stretch.
I am blind so I have to use computer using Orca screen reader. It happens wery often that when I e.g click the Reload button in Synaptic, or select Reload from the Synaptic menu, then Orca screen reader stops speaking. Synapticdoes not freeze the whole desktop, just Orca. This problem seems to happen randomly, sometimes it happens sometimes it does not. When Synaptic has finished reloading the package database information Orca may start speaking again, but often it does not. If it does not then I have to close the Synaptic by pressing alt + F4 after which Orca starts to speak again. It also happens sometimes that if I have reloaded repository package database information and click Mark all updades after that then Orca stops speaking. On my second laptop it currently happens almost every time that Orca stops speaking when I click the Mark all updates or select it from the menu. Tkhat also seems to happen randomly, sometimes it happens sometimes not. I have not noticed any problems like that when I have used other applications, this happns only when I am using Synaptic. As I said I have two laptops running Debian Stretch and both have the same problems. Both laptops have been upgraded from Jessie to Stretch. The first laptop was almost clean Jessie installation before it was upgraded to Stretch, it still has wery little apps installed. I am using Gnome desktop. I am blind so it is difficult for me to try to figure out what is wrong. I I have used both espeak and espeak-ng speech synthetisers with Orca screen reader, the same problem exists notmatter which of those is in use. -- 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 synaptic depends on: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.15-1 ii libapt-inst2.0 1.4~rc2 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4~rc2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.8-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1 ii libept1.5.0 1.1+nmu3+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-11 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-3 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.9-4 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.4-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.4-1 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.22-3 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-11 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.1-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxapian30 1.4.3-1 ii policykit-1 0.105-17 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2499-1 ii rarian-compat 0.8.1-6+b1 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 Versions of packages synaptic suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.49 pn deborphan <none> pn dwww <none> ii menu 2.1.47+b1 ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-1 ii tasksel 3.39 -- no debconf information
