Failing Acroreader

[Net Llama!]

What version of acrobat is this?  Is this problem happening for all users,
or just yours?  Have you tried moving ~/.acrobat ?

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Mike Reinehr wrote:

> 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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