* [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?
2013-10-28 21:52 [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone? Nikos Chantziaras
@ 2013-10-28 23:16 ` walt
2013-10-29 1:06 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-10-29 15:55 ` Holger Hoffstaette
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From: walt @ 2013-10-28 23:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 10/28/2013 02:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't
> start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No
> window is showing up.
>
> Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64.
I just installed acroread on ~amd64 (a virtualbox guest) and it works
as expected (the dreaded WFM reply).
I noticed that acroread is a 32-bit app and several emul-linux-x86-*
packages were installed as dependencies.
How are you starting acroread? Clicking on a pdf file in a gui file
manager, or from a command prompt, or...?
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2013-10-28 23:16 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
@ 2013-10-29 1:06 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-10-29 9:18 ` Thanasis
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From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2013-10-29 1:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 29/10/13 01:16, walt wrote:
> On 10/28/2013 02:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't
>> start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No
>> window is showing up.
>>
>> Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64.
>
> I just installed acroread on ~amd64 (a virtualbox guest) and it works
> as expected (the dreaded WFM reply).
>
> I noticed that acroread is a 32-bit app and several emul-linux-x86-*
> packages were installed as dependencies.
>
> How are you starting acroread? Clicking on a pdf file in a gui file
> manager, or from a command prompt, or...?
From everywhere. Same result.
I noticed I had an ~/.adobe/Acrobat directory. I deleted that. Now the
splash logo shows up, but then just aborts again and nothing happens. :-/
I've tried stracing it, but doing so freezes the system (I suspect the
NVidia driver doesn't like it.)
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?
2013-10-29 1:06 ` Nikos Chantziaras
@ 2013-10-29 9:18 ` Thanasis
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From: Thanasis @ 2013-10-29 9:18 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user; +Cc: Nikos Chantziaras
on 10/29/2013 03:06 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote the following:
> On 29/10/13 01:16, walt wrote:
>> On 10/28/2013 02:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't
>>> start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No
>>> window is showing up.
>
app-text/acroread-9.5.5 on amd64 here, works fine.
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* [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?
2013-10-28 21:52 [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone? Nikos Chantziaras
2013-10-28 23:16 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
@ 2013-10-29 15:55 ` Holger Hoffstaette
2013-10-31 14:16 ` James
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From: Holger Hoffstaette @ 2013-10-29 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:52:44 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start
> up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is
> showing up.
>
> Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64.
I just rebuilt my system for ~amd64 and have it working fine. The thing to
understand about Acrobat Reader is that it has forever been linked
incorrectly: it contains both an embedded old zlib AND dynamically links
against the system-wide zlib version. Yes, these people are laughably
incompetent.
This goes poof when e.g the dynamically loaded zlib is compiled with -O3,
which seems to change symbol entry points & offsets. If I had to look
deeper that would be my first angle of attack. Since I now have the
x86-emul-libs prebuilt I no longer have this problem; however on my
remaining 32bit x86 installation zlib must still be built with -O2 only.
-h
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2013-10-28 21:52 [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone? Nikos Chantziaras
2013-10-28 23:16 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-10-29 15:55 ` Holger Hoffstaette
@ 2013-10-31 14:16 ` James
2013-10-31 15:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-11-01 9:43 ` Francesco Turco
2013-11-01 6:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Colquhoun
2013-11-06 3:15 ` Keith Dart
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From: James @ 2013-10-31 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't
> start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window
> is showing up.
Perhaps a license issue?
# Modify /etc/portage/make.conf file for your system:
ACCEPT_LICENSE="AdobeFlash-10.3"
just a thought...
hth,
James
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* [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?
2013-10-31 14:16 ` James
@ 2013-10-31 15:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-11-01 9:43 ` Francesco Turco
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From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2013-10-31 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 31/10/13 16:16, James wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't
>> start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window
>> is showing up.
>
>
> Perhaps a license issue?
>
> # Modify /etc/portage/make.conf file for your system:
> ACCEPT_LICENSE="AdobeFlash-10.3"
Nah. I have it set to "*".
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?
2013-10-31 14:16 ` James
2013-10-31 15:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
@ 2013-11-01 9:43 ` Francesco Turco
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From: Francesco Turco @ 2013-11-01 9:43 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013, at 15:16, James wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't
> > start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window
> > is showing up.
> Perhaps a license issue?
>
> # Modify /etc/portage/make.conf file for your system:
> ACCEPT_LICENSE="AdobeFlash-10.3"
He has problems with Adobe Acrobat Reader, not Adobe Flash Player. I
would also edit /etc/portage/package.license for adding licence
exceptions instead of make.conf.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?
2013-10-28 21:52 [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone? Nikos Chantziaras
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2013-10-31 14:16 ` James
@ 2013-11-01 6:30 ` Paul Colquhoun
2013-11-06 3:15 ` Keith Dart
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From: Paul Colquhoun @ 2013-11-01 6:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:52:44 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't
> start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window
> is showing up.
>
> Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64.
What happens when you start it from a command line?
That should give some error messages.
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2013-10-28 21:52 [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone? Nikos Chantziaras
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2013-11-01 6:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Colquhoun
@ 2013-11-06 3:15 ` Keith Dart
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From: Keith Dart @ 2013-11-06 3:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Re , Nikos Chantziaras said:
> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working.
Side note, evince works for me on ~amd64 for viewing pdf. It also seems
to work ok with fillable pdf.
https://projects.gnome.org/evince/
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