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I have figured out that acroread uses expr command in improper way:
expr substr 00000000000 1
too few arguments for current version of expr

Hi, on my FC6 machine acrobat segfaults! I looked at strace but did not find any clues -- nothing much besides loading libraries settings.

traces are too big to post here, so:
strace -- with AIGLX effects enables <http://konstantin.antselovich.com/downloads/c69a11289ce314f6c7d69d1db396da1d/acroread.strace>
strace2 -- with AIGLX effects disabled <http://konstantin.antselovich.com/downloads/c69a11289ce314f6c7d69d1db396da1d/acroread.strace2>

Rgds,
Konstantin

--
Konstantin Antselovich
mailto: konstantin@antselovich.com

I'll look into gettimeofday function. Perhaps it is improper to pass NULL as second argument in current version. However I don't have such problem. Do you have all latest updates for FC6?

Hi Konstantin,

Could you export the environment variable ACRO_CRASHLOG before running acroread and post the contents of the crashlog generated (when acroread crashes) here?

bash$ export ACRO_CRASHLOG=1
bash$ acroread

Ashutosh

Strange, I agree; other people report that reader works on FC6 after some changes are made to the startup script (as in this patch <http://remi.collet.free.fr/files/acroread.patch> )

Yes, I have fully up-to-date FC6. Let me know if more info from me is needed.

Rgds,
Konstantin

Hi Ashutosh,

below is a crashlog

-------
/usr/bin/acroread(wcsftime+0x144f)[0x83685df]
/usr/bin/acroread(wcsftime+0x10ea)[0x836827a]
[0xba2420]
/usr/bin/acroread(_ZNSt8ios_base7_M_initEv+0x4b)[0x8cb0deb]
/usr/bin/acroread(_ZNSt9basic_iosIcSt11char_traitsIcEE4initEPSt15basic_streambufIcS1_E+0x1d)[0x8cdd60d]
/usr/lib/libscim-1.0.so.8[0xac5952]
/usr/lib/libscim-1.0.so.8[0xb1c266]
/usr/lib/libscim-1.0.so.8[0xab59c5]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0x3a1fc3]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0x3a20d3]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0x3a5924]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0x3a1c06]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0x3a5192]
/lib/libdl.so.2[0xd8cd0d]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0x3a1c06]
/lib/libdl.so.2[0xd8d38c]
/lib/libdl.so.2(dlopen+0x44)[0xd8cc44]
/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0(g_module_open+0x169)[0x38b469]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x4d1d1b9]
/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_type_module_use+0x88)[0x4b04a38]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x4d1da5e]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x4d1e66b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x4d1e869]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_im_context_set_client_window+0x4e)[0x4d1bc8e]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x4df2e8c]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x4dffb96]
/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID+0x49)[0x4af1259]
/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0[0x4ae26f9]
/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x12b)[0x4ae3f0b]
/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0[0x4af531a]
/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x89f)[0x4af637f]
/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x29)[0x4af6539]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_realize+0xba)[0x4e58fba]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_realize+0x1b2)[0x4e590b2]
/usr/bin/acroread(_Z23UnixAppInitSystemColorsP10_GtkWidget+0xf1)[0x836f081]
/usr/bin/acroread(_Z19UnixAppInitColormapP10_GtkWidget+0x1a)[0x836fc9a]
/usr/bin/acroread(UnixAppInitUI+0x40)[0x8369890]
/usr/bin/acroread(UnixAppMain+0x1fb)[0x836937b]
/usr/bin/acroread(main+0x3a)[0x8367daa]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0x499f2c]
/usr/bin/acroread(gtk_widget_grab_focus+0x31)[0x8367cd1]

Konstantin,

This problem probably exists because of the presence of a conflicting version of libscim (Smart Common Input Method Library). The workaround is to run the command

export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

before running acroread.

(Copied from ReadMe.htm).

Ashutosh

But there is still problem with improper expr usage. Printing strace report for details. (Note 3rd line in it - I suspect problem is there)
Sorry for asting it here but I can'f find file attach function in tgis forum
execve("/usr/bin/acroread", ["acroread"], [/* 41 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x80fc000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=126718, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 126718, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7fa0000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260;\247"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=13276, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f9f000
mmap2(0x48a73000, 14760, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x48a73000
mmap2(0x48a76000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x2) = 0x48a76000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0000\273"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=16528, ...}) = 0
mmap2(0x490fb000, 12408, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x490fb000
mmap2(0x490fd000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0x490fd000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0p\200\26"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1577052, ...}) = 0
mmap2(0x152000, 1295780, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x152000
mmap2(0x289000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x137) = 0x289000
mmap2(0x28c000, 9636, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x28c000
close(3) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f9e000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7f9e6c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
mprotect(0x490fd000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x289000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xb31000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0xb7fa0000, 126718) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
close(3) = 0
brk(0) = 0x80fc000
brk(0x811d000) = 0x811d000
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=55521056, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7d9e000
close(3) = 0
getuid32() = 500
getgid32() = 500
geteuid32() = 500
getegid32() = 500
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
time(NULL) = 1163006371
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fbe000
read(3, "MemTotal: 1035612 kB\nMemFre"..., 1024) = 771
close(3) = 0
munmap(0xb7fbe000, 4096) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="localhost.localdomain", ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/thesource", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=2048, ...}) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=2048, ...}) = 0
getpid() = 5025
open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=25460, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 25460, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0xb7fb8000
close(3) = 0
getppid() = 5024
getpgrp() = 5024
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x8079d00, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
open("/usr/bin/acroread", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfcfd1b8) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0
read(3, "#!/bin/sh\n#\n\n\nsetLangENU()\n{\nST_"..., 80) = 80
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0
getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, {rlim_cur=1024, rlim_max=1024}) = 0
dup2(3, 255) = 255
close(3) = 0
fcntl64(255, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fcntl64(255, F_GETFL) = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
fstat64(255, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=22139, ...}) = 0
_llseek(255, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
read(255, "#!/bin/sh\n#\n\n\nsetLangENU()\n{\nST_"..., 8192) = 8192
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
read(255, "og at\"\nST_IOP_ERR1=\"OpenOffice P"..., 8192) = 8192
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
pipe([3, 4]) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0
_llseek(255, -6119, [10265], SEEK_CUR) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7f9e708) = 5026
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
waitpid(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], WNOHANG) = 5026
waitpid(-1, 0xbfcfc7f8, WNOHANG) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])

many more strings

Thanks Ashutosh,

Looked at readme (for the first time). OK, confirm that this does work:
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim acroread

I patched the loading script to check for 'scim' module and overwrite it (see below)

Rgds,
Konstantin

--- acroread.orig 2006-11-08 09:55:14.115325124 -0800
+++ acroread 2006-11-08 09:51:21.128764374 -0800
@@ -648,6 +648,17 @@
 fi

#
+# "SCIM hack"
+# check if we have a scim GTK module load, and overwrite it to avoid crash
+#
+
+if [ $GTK_IM_MODULE = "scim" ]; then
+
+ export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
+fi
+
+
+#
 # Setup configuration specific environment variables
 #

[Reposting with edits from thread "Reader won't start, Fedora Core 6 newbie"] GTK_IM_MODULE=xim did not work for me. (FC 6, AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1.i386.tar.gz) <http://remi.collet.free.fr/files/acroread.patch> did work. I also was able to get the bin/acroread script to work by putting quotes (") around the arg to 'expr length' and the final arg to 'expr substr', which was I think five lines changed - this is a less intrusive patch.



 
--- bin/acroread.orig	2006-12-18 14:46:20.000000000 -0500 
+++ bin/acroread	2006-12-18 14:47:00.000000000 -0500 
@@ -455,13 +455,13 @@ 
             continue 
         fi

-        len_version=`expr length $version` 
-        base_version=`expr substr "${base_version}0000000000" 1 $len_version` 
-        len_base_version=`expr length $base_version` 
+        len_version=`expr length "$version"` 
+        base_version=`expr substr "${base_version}0000000000" 1 "$len_version"` 
+        len_base_version=`expr length "$base_version"`

         while [ $len_version -gt $len_base_version ]; do 
-            base_version=`expr substr "${base_version}0000000000" 1 $len_version` 
-            len_base_version=`expr length $base_version` 
+            base_version=`expr substr "${base_version}0000000000" 1 "$len_version"` 
+            len_base_version=`expr length "$base_version"` 
         done

     	if [ $version -ge $base_version ]; then 

There is a bug in combination with readlink /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so
in /usr/bin/acroread get_gtk_file_ver()

echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\
([0-9]*\)
.0.so.0.
\([0-9]\)00 <<<<<<<<< this fails .\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

readlink /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so
returns
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1000.4
and 1000 gets parsed with [0-9]00

changing sed to ..... \([0-9]0\)00
fixes it.

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root@localhost ~]# acroread -version
7.0.9

Hi,

I had the same problem with Adobe reader 7.09 on FC6. It printed out endless "expr: expression error". After appling the patch (http://remi.collet.free.fr/files/acroread.patch), I can run the reader remotely from another linux box, but the reader just can not run on the local FC6 box. Every time I execute the program, it hangs there for a while, it stops running, and nothing happens. No error messages, either. If I ssh to another linux box from this local FC6 box and then ssh back to this local FC6 box and run the reader, it runs well. So, it seems not a hardware problem. Does anyone have the same problem? or have any ideas how to fix it? Thanks.

Hi,

Could you run acroread with strace and let us know what it is trying to do when it hangs:

bash$ strace InstallationDir/bin/acroread

Also, does acroread use up a lot of CPU time when this happens. You can see this using the 'top' command.

Thanks.

Also, another workaround for the 'expr' issue (that you fixed with the patch) is to edit the file <InstallationDir>/bin/acroread and replace the following line:

check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path "$MIN_GTK_VERSION"

with

# check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path "$MIN_GTK_VERSION"

(i.e. comment the line).

Ashutosh

This has been brought up many times in a number of forums. The problem 
is GTK2 going to V10 from V9. The acroread script has a "sed" command 
that parses the GTK2 level and it won't handle the change from one to 
two digits in the version number.

I posted a patch for acroread in this forum on 12/20/2006. The patch 
corrected the problem, worked with V10 and should also work with V9 or 
lower. The patch included directions for installing and sha1 values for 
the patch files and the acroread script to be modified.

Phil Sherman


AshutoshJSharma@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Also, another workaround for the 'expr' issue (that you fixed with the patch) is to edit the file <InstallationDir>/bin/acroread and replace the following line:
> 
> check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path "$MIN_GTK_VERSION"
> 
> with
> 
> # check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path "$MIN_GTK_VERSION"
> 
> (i.e. comment the line).
> 
> Ashutosh

Thanks for Ashutosh's kindly response. I tried to strace acroread and found the reader is running well now. Something I can't explain. After we installed FC6, we have had a few different problems. Not sure if the problems are due to FC6 itself or my co-worker who is using that computer (I was helping him for the installation, but after that he encountered different problems almost every day. sigh...I have no problems with my FC5 so far.) So, we actually have tried a lot of fixs or patches or updates or upgrades. It's really a long story. Anyway, the last thing we did was to update nvidia driver and reboot the system. I guess that might also fix the Acrobat reader problem. Thanks again.

Thank you sooooo much! Ashutosh! Works like a charm in FC6 with this problem.
By the way mine worked fine until I removed one of the two entries in the KDE menu (It always installs duplicates for some reason) I don't know if this was related or coincidence.