On 08/24/2017 11:37 PM, DJ Lucas wrote:
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?
Strace confirmed: SIGSEGV
Everything else looked fairly normal. Many pages of it.
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?
32 bit system.
If x86_64, what 32bit libs do you have installed? Seems
gtk2, icu, mesa, glu, idn... Is this Xorg or a Wayland session?
System Monitor reports Xorg running but not Wayland.
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.
So, I updated Curl to 7.52.1 while I was at it.
Tried starting with a fresh $HOME/.adobe directory. That did help some.
I now get an error message from acroread when started in Konsole:
dirname: missing operand
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
and when I do that, I get this:
dirname: missing operand
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
Usage: acroread [options] [list of files]
Run 'acroread -help' to see a full list of available command
line options.
Segmentation fault
So, it appears that a Segmentation Fault crash is the problem. I have
no clue exactly what the cause is.
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James Tyrer
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