Mickey binarynut@comcast.net writes:
F20 / KDE
Trying to run acroread in AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm and it won't start.
I have run Strace on acroread and listed the last few lines of the Output,
To be curious, doesn't that violate the license it comes with?
Could someone tell me what it all means ?
writev(3, [{"H\2D\243\235\1`\4\243\1`\4U\2F\0\0\0\332\0\0\30`\4", 24}, {"\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0"..., 167160}, {"", 0}], 3) = 167184 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SI_KERNEL, si_addr=0} --- rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL, [ABRT], SA_RESTART}, {0x850aafa, [], 0}, 8) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++
Apparently it causes a segmentation fault when or after perhaps trying to write something. I would guess that there's either a pointer wrongly set or some problem with freeing or overwriting memory.