acroread5 will not start

Sergey A. Osokin osa at freebsd.org.ru
Mon Nov 17 14:07:56 PST 2003


On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:40:30PM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote:
> Please CC me.  I do not subscribe to PORTS.  Thanks...
> 
> I'm trying to configure mozilla to call acroread5 for pdf files.
> This is a 5.1-CURRENT from October of '03 (I stay back from the edge 
> some  ;-)
> According to pkg_info, I have acroread-5.08 installed.
> 
> This is what it's giving me:
> $ acroread5
> ELF binary type "3" not known.
> /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: 1: Syntax error: "(" 
> unexpected
> $
> 
> This smells like a compatability module problem.
> I tried searching questions and ports but I didn't find anything talking 
> about ELF binary types.
> 
> TIA for any help...

Looks like linux kernel module unloadable.
$ kldload linux
then try again.

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