gutsy: at-spi-registryd not starting automatically during gdmlogin

[Francesco Fumanti]

During the gdmlogin session, at-spi-registryd should be automatically started when Assistive Technology is enabled (I don't know for sure whether it should also be automatically started if Assistive Technology is not enabled.) It does start automatically in Ubuntu 7.04,but it does not start anymore in 7.10.

However, if I define a gesture to start at-spi-registryd in the dwell gesture configuration of gdm, I can start it without a problem. This shows that it is probably not a problem of gdm and at-spi-registryd running simultaneously.

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

The problem has probably been identified; have a look at this message (and maybe following messages) in the gdm mailing list in gnome:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2007-August/msg00112.html

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

The problem has been fixed upstream: it was due because gdm looked for at-spi-registryd at a wrong location. Now it is possible to specify the location of the at-spi-registryd via the --with-at-spidir configure argument. You can find more information in this thread on the gnome mailing list:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2007-September/msg00017.html

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gdm (2.20.0-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Now support --with-atspi-dir so you can specify a non-default
      directory where the at-spi-registryd daemon exists.
    - Improve keymouselistener a11y gesture listener so it does not
      fail on Ubuntu, and does a better job freeing memory. Fix
      dwellmouselistener a11y gesture listener so it doesn't generate warnings.
    - Fix bug in IPv6 logic. Fixes bug #376010.
    - Fix Macedonian language so the language choice also appears in
      the local language
    - Translation updates
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated the Build-Depends
  * debian/patches/35_gdm.conf.patch:
    - use UseCirclesInEntry=true (LP: #138460)
  * debian/patches/70_mandatory-relibtoolize.patch:
    - updated
  * debian/rules:
    - use --with-atspi-dir=/usr/lib/at-spi (LP: #135903)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:13:52 +0200