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just a update i reloaded.. all good now

ok so it is not solved yet. Pulseaudio still does not work i am unable to un-install it (because it will remove gnome) . But I can disable it to use orca screen reader (changes mentioned above) the only problem with pulseaudio being installed was kodi . with pulseaudio installed kodi will use that b...

ok so just disabling as pointed out by bw123 pulse audi will make the screen reader work. but sound for kodi that uses pulseaudio if its installed is a issue. . I wounder if there is a way to just fix the pulseaudio so it works again. why is it not recognizing in the sound interface it just says dum...

how do I fix pulseaudio

Definitely some tips for before i autoremove pulseaudio I am not sure why all sound stopped working. . I just installed net install and was on my way home all was working firefox , orca screen reader and i was all set to vnc through a tunneled ssh connection to help my friend then everything was dea...

urgh it install everything but when we rebooted still blank screen.. something is still messed getting some errors gnome-session-binary[1238]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1 root@gman:/var/log# cat syslog | tail -c 8888 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.1...

wow, I checked out the logs and from what I can see it looks like it un-installed gnome Here are the commands i typed and the results according to logs.. Start-Date: 2018-05-29 21:36:07 Commandline: apt-get install kodi Install: kodi-visualization-spectrum:amd64 (1.1.1-1, automatic), libjs-iscroll:a...

So I tried to restore everything I have done so far, remove the line i added in the /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
it still just boot into a blank screen so I tried to install pulseaudio then remove it numerous reboots . Agh

now I have nothing.

what happened?

what logs should I show.

so i tried to reinstall pulseaudio

apt-get install pulseaudio

so dead in the water i guess

root@gman:/home/enduser# cat /var/log/syslog |grep gnome Jun 3 21:34:41 gman dbus-daemon[544]: Activating service name='org.gnome.ControlCenter.SearchProvider' Jun 3 21:34:41 gman dbus-daemon[544]: Activating service name='org.gnome.Contacts.SearchProvider' Jun 3 21:34:41 gman dbus-daemon[544]: Act...

ok so sure enough i added one line and was able to use console to make it talk.. but orca still does not work $ orca -r Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Cannot start the screen reader because it cannot connect t...

I have a Blind friend we tried many different distros and last one was Sonar , it was ok but never could get past the security to run vnc so I could help remotely.. It had issues with pacman and updating not for this topic... older system HP 6000 sff running Debian gnome net install and when I insta...