Failing Acroreader

[Mike Reinehr]

To all,

Starting this week, my Adobe Acroread has started failing with the following 
message:

$ acroread
X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  17 (X_GetAtomName)
  Atom id in failed request:  0x3e8
  Serial number of failed request:  109
  Current serial number in output stream:  109

I'm running a Debian mixed testing/unstable system and I believe this started 
with my last upgrade, which I performed last Friday. It might have happened 
sooner, but I don't think so, as I tend to use Acroread on a daily basis.

Just for the hell of it, since it takes only a few minutes, I downloaded a 
fresh copy of Acroread from the Adobe website and installed it a few minutes 
ago, but no joy.

The readme file describes the Linux prerequisits as being a Linux 2.2 kernel 
and glibc 2.1.3. Well, I don't think I've had either of those in quite some 
time. I'm currently running a 2.4.24 kernel and 2.3.2 libc6, neither of which 
was upgraded this past Friday.

I would appreciate any insite anyone can give me into this problem.

Thanks in advance!

mike
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