[gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

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.

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[walt]

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...?

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

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.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[Thanasis]

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.

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[Holger Hoffstaette]

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

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[James]

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

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

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 "*".

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[Paul Colquhoun]

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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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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[Francesco Turco]

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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

[Keith Dart]

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/



-- Keith




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