acroread9 crashing

[Jerry McAllister]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 07:25:27AM -0400, Jerry wrote:

> 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.

I have not been able to get acroread to work.
I gave up and use XPDF which does what I need, though minimally.

////jerry


> 
> :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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