acroread runs but nothing happens

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1 total messages Started by Solum Deorsum Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:06

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Author: Solum Deorsum
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:06

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Hi all.

This is a note primarily for myself.  I know I'm going to see this
again.  I know I'll come to google groups to find the answer.  Maybe
I'll get lucky and find this post so I can fix it.  Maybe someone here
will have the same problem and this will help them.

Problem:  Running /bin/acroread results in nothing happening.
Cause: Unknown....  but....
Solution:  run acroread in an INTERACTIVE LOGIN SHELL and not in a
non-interactive login shell.

For newbies, this means that you may have to run "su - yourname" in
your terminal window.  You'll have to put in your password again, but
you'll at least get the program to run.

This was for Acrobat Reader version 7.0.8 and 7.0.9 running under SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.1.

I know this as adobe.acrobat.unix.  I know unix != linux.  But linux ~
unix.

I have no idea why this problem came about.  However there are many
posts about it with version of acrobat reader running back to version
4.

Enjoy!

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