Re: Acrobat 7.01 exits immediately

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 13:34, Kevin wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 13:27 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Current problem - I downloaded Adobe Acrobat 7.01 for Linux and
> > installed it. For some reason, acroread exits immediately when I try to
> > run it, with no error messages.
>
> Haven't experienced this myself, but this is what I would try next.
> Launch acroread from a shell prompt. It might spit out some errors on
> stderr or stdout and you will see those from the command line. Try this
> as a regular user and as root, to determine if there are any permissions
> problems.
>
> Next, I would try the strace command (man strace). I would start with
> `strace -c acroread` which will print a nice summary of calls and errors
> after the process exits. If that doesn't yield a clue, try `strace -o
> acroread.strace acroread` to get the full dump redirected to a file
> called 'acroread.strace'. You could spend days reading through the
> resulting file.
>
> Don't know if that helps, but it's worth a shot.
>
> ...Kevin
>
>
Kevin,
I thought of the first couple things, but I wasn't aware of strace.
It's a handy tool! I've discovered that acroread produces hundreds of
errors, all from file-related calls, mostly open. Hmmm. Adobe probably
forgot to set an environment variable in the install that it needed to
find particular files. At least that's a clue that can help with me
search. Thanks!
Vaughn


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