Re: acroread problem

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> In Sid, since an upgrade last week, Adobe acroread (v. 7) does not work 
> anymore (both the version straight from Adobe and the .deb version from 
> Marillat). Did anyone noticed this also? Any idea of cause or cure? I 
> tried strace and it seems that acroread aborts after
>
>     gettimeofday({1137670839, 615401}, NULL) = 0
>     --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>     exit_group(1)

and their system requirements don't offer much help:

Adobe Reader 7.0 system requirements
Linux

    * 32 bit Intel Pentium processor
    * Red Hat Linux AS 3.0 2.4.21, 4.0 2.6, Red Hat Linux ES 3.0 
2.4.21, 4.0 2.6, Red Hat Linux WS 3.02.4.21, 4.0 2.6, Red Hat Linux 
Desktop, Red Hat Linux 9.0 2.4.20-6, SUSE Enterprise Server 9X 2.6, SUSE 
Professional 9.2 2.6.4, Novell Linux Desktop (9.x) 2.6.4
    * 128MB RAM (256MB Recommended)
    * Up to 125MB of available hard-disk space
    * Mozilla 1.73, 1.8, Netscape 7, Firefox 1.0

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