Failing Acroreader

[Mike Reinehr]

On Thursday 22 April 2004 10:18 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> What version of acrobat is this?  Is this problem happening for all users,
> or just yours?  Have you tried moving ~/.acrobat ?

	Good ideas. I should have thought of that.

	It's version 5.0.8.

	I'm the only user on this desktop, but I just logged in as root and gave it a 
try and received exactly the same error message. Also, tried moving 
the .acrobat directory with the same result.

	It finally occurs to me that this could be an X windows issue, but there is 
nothing being logged to .xsession-errors. However, there appears to have been 
a significant upgrade to my X window system during the last upgrade -- about 
13 X-related packages (server, fonts, libs, etc. ) from 4.2.1-12.1 to 
4.3.0-7. I wonder if acroread is failing when it tries to open a window.

TIA!

mike

> 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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