Failing Acroreader

[Net Llama!]

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On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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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