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On 29/10/13 01:16, walt wrote: |
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> On 10/28/2013 02:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't |
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>> start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No |
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>> window is showing up. |
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>> Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64. |
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> I just installed acroread on ~amd64 (a virtualbox guest) and it works |
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> as expected (the dreaded WFM reply). |
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> I noticed that acroread is a 32-bit app and several emul-linux-x86-* |
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> packages were installed as dependencies. |
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> How are you starting acroread? Clicking on a pdf file in a gui file |
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> manager, or from a command prompt, or...? |
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From everywhere. Same result. |
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I noticed I had an ~/.adobe/Acrobat directory. I deleted that. Now the |
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splash logo shows up, but then just aborts again and nothing happens. :-/ |
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I've tried stracing it, but doing so freezes the system (I suspect the |
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NVidia driver doesn't like it.) |
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