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