Re: [Gramps-devel] funny warning message

[John R. <jr...@ce...>]

On Feb 17, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Paul Franklin <pf....@gm...> wrote:

> It is not clear to me if this is worth mentioning.  If it
> isn't, I apologize for bothering you.  But since I don't
> know what it means I am mentioning it in case it matters.
> 
> Basically for months I've been trying to make an environment
> where I can run gramps40 or trunk.  That meant Fedora 18 for
> me, which was finally released in January.  My previous
> gramps work was on F14 and I was very happy with that, but
> it doesn't have GTK3 and the other things gramps40 needs.
> 
> But things on F18 don't work like F14 did.  For instance it
> does not come with the video drivers I need, which are for
> older cards.  (The F18 installer, anaconda, does have them,
> which annoys me.)  But even when I install it I can't get a
> decent GNOME/gdm login window (or GNOME3 desktop, which I
> suspect doesn't matter at all, since I normally run twm).
> But I had "X" problems too, communicating between machines.
> 
> So in the last week or so I installed another F18, choosing
> the LXDE desktop instead (which gave me a decent login
> window, and desktop, before I switched to twm).  But I still
> had "X" problems so today I tried installing an F18 with the
> XFCE desktop environment.  So that's where I got this error,
> every time I start gramps40:
> 
> 
> ** (Gramps.py:16411): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility
> bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
> application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
> blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network
> connection was broken.
> 2013-02-17 16:26:38.703: WARNING: spell.py: line 73: Spelling checker
> is not installed
> 
> ** (Gramps.py:16411): CRITICAL **: atk_bridge_adaptor_cleanup:
> assertion `inited' failed
> 
> 
> But I don't get that error when I start a gramps34 gramps,
> on the same machine.  So that's different enough that I am
> reporting it.  But I don't remember getting that error on
> either the "vanilla" GNOME F18, nor on the LXDE F18, so
> maybe it's just something simple, such as something wasn't
> installed on this XFCE F18 version.
> 
> Mind you, I don't know what an "accessibility bus" is and
> have no plans to use whatever it is.  I am just making sure
> it's not some problem in gramps itself.

The "accessibility bus" is Gtk3's new way of managing accessibility functions (atk and its client apps).
The critical error from atk_bridge_adaptor is related.
I suggest ignoring the warning for now, but I'll take a look at how we're initializing Gtk and make sure
we're doing our part right.

Regards,
John Ralls