On 07/12/2014 09:14 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Hi Mickey,
    This might be a moot point, but have you tried deleting the adobereader profile in your home directory, which fixed my 9.5.5 64bit reader problem when its execution produced errors about being unable to read a file?

regards,
Steve

On 07/13/2014 09:37 AM, Mickey wrote:

On 07/12/2014 05:24 PM, bitlord wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:13:12 -0400
Mickey <binarynut@comcast.net> wrote:

On 07/12/2014 02:07 PM, Mickey wrote:
Fedora 20 /KDE

yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does
install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm

but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and
nothing shows in /var/log/messages.


I Downloaded the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and installed it
on a NEW F20 Box and it works perfect.

But on two other previous boxes I  uninstalled
AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm that will not execute and
installed the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin, it installed with
no problems, but I'm still back to the old thing, it will not
execute, just a flash of the Red Adobereader Splash screen for a
second and then nothing.

There has Got to be something with Ferdora 20 that is causing this
problem, now I have got two boxes that will not work with
AdobeReader-9.5.5 on Fedora 20.

I have to have AdobeReader-9.5.5 , because the FOSS pdf readers
will not allow me to Edit and Print PDF files Online at the Boy
Scouts of america website.


I forgot to add , I'am running a 32 bit Fedora-20 install on all of
the boxes.
I'm not using proprietary closed source software, but try running it
from a command line to see if there is any error from the program. You
can also try to check if it is missing any library (if it is not
statically linked) with 'ldd <binary>', also if you have SElinux
enabled (which is default on Fedora) check for its messages (I think
in /var/log/audit/audit.log) (maybe it blocks some "actions" from you
software, and if it does, you can temporarily try disabling SELinux and
testing it again)
No error message at command line.

Selinux is disabled.

acroread execute is in /usr/bin and it is linked to /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and if i execute acroread in /opt dir it execute and gives the Red AdobeReader splash screen, then goes away.  So there is no linking problem to execute of acroread.


$ strace acroread &> acroreadTEST.txt       (here is the last few lines in Strace and there is a Error message, but I don't understand what means.

writev(3, [{"H\0027\376\235\1\300\0\243\1\300\0U\2m\0\0\0m\0\0\30\300\0", 24}, {"\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0"..., 260292}, {"", 0}], 3) = 183360
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}])
writev(3, [{"\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0"..., 76956}, {"", 0}], 2) = 76956
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}])
writev(3, [{"H\2D\243\235\1\300\0\243\1\300\0U\2F\0\0\0\332\0\0\30\300\0", 24}, {"\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0"..., 167160}, {"", 0}], 3) = 167184
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SI_KERNEL, si_addr=0} ---
rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL, [ABRT], SA_RESTART}, {0x850aafa, [], 0}, 8) = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++









I uninstalled Adobereader and then I went into ~/.adobe/Acrobat and deleted that directory.

I then installed as SU AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and then tried to run acroread again and got same results, acroread won't start.

I,m thinking about backing up my Harddrive and reformat the whole drive and reinstalling Adobe fresh install and see what happens .

I replaced a harddrive on another computer that had crashed yesterday, and did a total fresh install with AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and  on the new drive AdobeReader ran perfect.