Second reply email -- on the installation issue ...
Jeremy Katz writes:
On Monday, April 06 2009, Janina Sajka said:
> Problem Areas
> * My attempt to install F-11 from the Live desktop icon failed.
> * All I could glean is that Orca had the installation screen
> * listed as "inaccessible." This is on an x86_64 box using x86_64
> * Live. It may not be there in i386.
>
> I wqould like to help debug this, but not sure how to proceed.
The problem here (unfortunately) is that we have to run the install as
root. But the session isn't running as root and hence you don't get any
of the a11y stuff.
While an argument could be made that the work could be done to separate
out the frontend and backend of the install and do everything over dbus
or some other ipc, the root of the matter is that there are too many
other things in the installer pile that are likely to always end up
taking priority. So the question is how can you get an app running as
root from consolehelper to work with the a11y technologies and then I
can try to push those tweaks as needed
OK. I'll try and help chase down the latest and greatest advice on this.
For starters:
* I believe Ubuntu Live is doing it. I'll get their image and
* check.
* Fedora's GUI Virt-Manager (System Tools) is doing it
* beautifully. While I'm still having problems learning to set up
* virtual machines, it's not for a11y reasons as this tool is
* working as it should--perhaps 95-98% of the screens. So,
* whatever virt-manager is doing in the gui, is the way to go. I,
* as the ordinary user, am prompted once (and accessibly) for
* root's passwd, and that's that.
* There's a page, not recently updated, on the Orca wiki on this
* topic:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin
Does any of this, particularly the virt-manager, help?
Janina
Jeremy
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