Description of problem: I have been trying to test dogtail using the recent red hat magazine article http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/dogtail/ However, dogtail will not start displaying the following error; Detecting distribution: Red Hat/Fedora/derived distribution Warning: AT-SPI error: pre method check: add: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/sniff", line 7, in ? from dogtail import tree File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 1154, in ? test = root.children File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 421, in __getattr__ children.append (Node (self.__accessible.getChildAtIndex (i))) File "pyspi.pyx", line 434, in atspi.Accessible.getChildAtIndex AssertionError This happens for both the "sniff" command and the "dogtail-detect-session" command. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dogtail-0.5.1-3.fc5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install dogtail 2. Enable assistive technology in gnome 3. logout/login 4. Run "sniff" or "dogtail-detect-session" Actual results: Error message above Expected results: A gui or somesuch Additional info:
Can you please explain the relation between dogtail and hackedbox? Does this only happen under hackedbox or did you simply file the bug under the wrong component?
Oops, sorry. I must have lost focus in the description box when entering this bug.
This is a known bug that was just fixed upstream on Friday. Just now I applied the same patches to the FC5 and devel versions.