acroread9 crashed immediately after starting

Jerry jerry at seibercom.net
Fri Dec 6 20:56:28 UTC 2013


On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:25:45 +0100, Rolf G Nielsen stated:

>
>
>On 2013-12-05 12:08, Jerry wrote:
>> System: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA3 #0 r257580 amd64
>> 
>> I have "acroread9" installed because I write and frequently need to
>> fill in online interactive PDF forms.
>> 
>> I have Adobe Pro XI installed on a Windows 8.1 machine to create and
>> modify interactive PDFs. It is the only program that I am aware of
>> that can accomplish this. I was trying to to insure that the forms
>> work correctly under different OSs. Using Firefox and its built in
>> PDF program fails miserably. It cannot utilize the interactive
>> properties of the PDF. I installed acroread9, but it simply crashes
>> a few seconds after it starts.
>> 
>> $ acroread9
>> Fontconfig error:
>> "/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70:
>> non-double matrix element Fontconfig error:
>> "/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70:
>> non-double matrix element Fontconfig warning:
>> "/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78:
>> saw unknown, expected number Fontconfig error:
>> "/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70:
>> non-double matrix element Fontconfig error:
>> "/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70:
>> non-double matrix element Fontconfig warning:
>> "/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78:
>> saw unknown, expected number terminate called after throwing an
>> instance of 'RSException'
>> 
>> This is line 70:       </matrix>
>> This is line 78:       </edit>
>> 
>> From the /var/message log:
>> 
>> Dec  5 05:45:33 scorpio kernel: linux: pid 31377 (acroread): syscall
>> inotify_init not implemented
>> 
>> Is this a known issue? If so, then why is the application in the
>> ports system if it will not run? If not, what do I have to do to get
>> it to run successfully?
>> 
>
>Have you loaded the linux_adobe kernel module?

From /etc/rc.conf: linux_enable="YES"

kldstat doesn't list it either. I cannot find it on my system either.

-- 
Jerry


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