acroread9 crashing

[Jerry]

FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE /amd64

I continue to have a problem getting acroread9 to run.

1) It will not create its directory in my home directory.

:1: error: unexpected character `\1', expected keyword - e.g. `style'
Acroread was unable to create the directory .adobe in your home directory.
There may be a permission problem with the parent directory.
Acroread was unable to create the directory /home/gerard/.adobe/Acrobat in your home directory.
There may be a permission problem with the parent directory.
Acroread was unable to create the directory /home/gerard/.adobe/Acrobat in your home directory.
There may be a permission problem with the parent directory.
Acroread was unable to create the directory /home/gerard/.adobe/Acrobat in your home directory.
There may be a permission problem with the parent directory.
Acroread was unable to create the directory /home/gerard/.adobe/Acrobat in your home directory.
There may be a permission problem with the parent directory.
Acroread was unable to create the directory /home/gerard/.adobe/Acrobat in your home directory.
There may be a permission problem with the parent directory.
Acroread was unable to create the directory /home/gerard/.adobe/Acrobat in your home directory.
There may be a permission problem with the parent directory.

The directory permissions are normal and no other program has ever
complained about it. I even tried giving it 0777 permissions without
success. So, I manually create the directory structure it appears to
want.

2) Now I manually start acroread9 again:

Error message:

:1: error: unexpected character `\1', expected keyword - e.g. `style'

Next License agreement displays and I choose <accept>

Main program windows pops up for 1 second and then disappears

This is now displayed:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'RSException'

3) From the "Security Run Output" received every morning, this excerpt:

+linux: pid 17352 (acroread): syscall inotify_init not implemented

I have tried doing a complete 'pkg_delete" of the program and then
reinstalling it without any success.

I wanted to use 'gdb' to try to debug the program; however, it throws an
error message also:

gdb acroread9
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"..."/usr/local/bin/acroread9": not in executable format: File format not recognized

(gdb) run
Starting program:  
No executable file specified.
Use the "file" or "exec-file" command.

I tried using the "file" command; however, that also throws an error,
probably because I am using the wrong syntax.

I am open to any suggestions. I tried Googling without any great
success. Evidently, many others have experienced this problem also. I
have not seen a concrete solution posted for it. This problem was
reported over a year ago, and perhaps more from what I have been able
to discover. If it is a universal problem in FreeBSD, then perhaps the
port should be marked "Broken". If not, then why does it work on some
systems and not others? From what I have been able to ascertain, many
users have never gotten it to work and have just given up on it.

I have used truss to capture the output if anyone wants to view it.

-- 
Jerry ✌
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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