Orca crashes and fails to start

Question

I'm trying to get Orca running on my Gnome 3.8 installation. I invoked setup from the terminal and encountered the following error:
[steve@arch ~]$ orca -t
Welcome to Orca setup.
Select desired speech server.
1. Default Synthesizer
2. dummy
3. cicero
4. generic
Enter choice: 1
Enable echo by word? Enter y or n: n
Enable key echo? Enter y or n: n
Select desired keyboard layout.
1. Desktop
2. Laptop
Enter choice: 2
Enable Braille? Enter y or n: n
Enable Braille Monitor? Enter y or n: n
Setup complete. Press Return to continue.
/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/gi/types.py:113: Warning: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
At that point, the terminal window hangs and stalls.
I found a recent thread in the orca mailing list and followed the suggestion to enable autospawn in gdm.
At this point, I'm stuck. If anyone can help me to get orca working, I'd be most appreciative. Thanks!

Answer 1

The complains about LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to be unsignificant, once you have started the instance, ldd oracle shows that all needed shared libraries are resolved.
Your error is reported on metalink
https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=FOR&p_id=617461.992
There are yet a couple of similar notes.
To resolve the problem i would check the /etc/hosts , /etc/sysconfig/network, output of hostname etc. Be sure , you don't use DHCP.
Regards
Maxim