From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB27013848E for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B476E0B13; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:15:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm16-vm4.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm16-vm4.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.115.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FB65E0995 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.196.81.161] by nm16.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Oct 2013 23:15:32 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.250] by tm7.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Oct 2013 23:15:32 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp120.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Oct 2013 23:15:32 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 185282.77414.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: dvDqLnMVM1mqLrC74A0prpBR1wELEBpynMEn3hrara.Nksf pZDx4zOFcy.Oh9GNVrFvFVyzmHeUE2P_zsoducDS3dTLRwUfMEAeW95VJzE1 dVGylTp9DRmRMTavZ80ueXWa3wlp51KRNV59ONCRHSv6xu9tmkCFser44o8j Xu9M4Fmwi4EpQDImpB5688t7Vq19.K6M_D2fVAbsVol05wypeDQR4nQJiuC9 3T0Ovcu7hrz0mPYl0_UzR_3R1y2T7rGcW.WbJ2j8tRs_jDsQnzwCfSNy4ZlV z22UJhUnpx9pPQdAOwTrVpOJAciTpp8qDrgZtd2b8DxybTv2E6JUxWEuO76i IlfH0iGxISgaS5RY8PeoPoAbCScc3JQyWzmzpbwI4RhJ5mMx6mK6NFdxYbtZ hgBgE96wlQO_POxM5fe7l0iYVQuWt0T11RVy0jDvaMu9zp8lOH072H3rJ_Mu nJk8dn.URtTIdYMaH50NGM3OMg2e_IdqnPy4nwrPpW9w5w9pmrD.BqM80Lwg vNXMLAukt7QRcbRGo_4ZoEYmB7SqP3Mb68n2onVAGCCpcMlIc X-Yahoo-SMTP: oM3WcDSswBC7zv73TQKEsi7eAZ0- X-Rocket-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (w41ter@69.234.185.175 with ) by smtp120.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Oct 2013 23:15:32 +0000 UTC Message-ID: <526EF064.3060902@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:16:52 -0700 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8402ad5c-c2d9-4075-8fd1-03f5cc4782ec X-Archives-Hash: 0e91671970d35e63680d37440e0d6bf4 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...?