On 08/24/2017 03:01 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
After recent upgrades, both acroread 8 and 9 quit working. When run from a KDE Konsole, it gives no error message. It just doesn't start. I have checked ldd and all of the libraries are present. I also reinstalled the RPM.
strace?
I saw on Google that someone was having problems based on Xz and Libxml2 so I reinstalled them. This produced error messages while I was doing that, but after I was finished they went away. So, I have reached the conclusion that it is promptly crashing after the actual application is loaded.
Possibly.
There was a discussion on Linux Questions about glibc-2.18 causing similar issues under some circumstances but we are now up to glibc-2.25. I looked and I never had installed 2.18. Any suggestions are welcome. I have some files that require Acroread 8 and a plugin for it to view so using another PDF reader doesn't solve the problem although I have several others on my system. If this is a problem with GLibC, I presume that it is causing trouble with something else as well.
x86_64 or i686? If x86_64, what 32bit libs do you have installed? Seems gtk2, icu, mesa, glu, idn... Is this Xorg or a Wayland session? If the latter, try in Xorg session. I'm not sure that acroread will run under Wayland, but near silent fail is not uncommon...actually it'd probably complain about connecting to the session. Also, is curl installed? I vaguely remember something about it dlopening libcurl rather than link to it.
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