Opening a PDF file within Firefox for the first time does start acroread and one can view a PDF document, however, it causes a defunct process preventing other PDF files from being viewed. As far as I can tell, I have to reboot to clear the defunct process before being able to use FF for PDF viewing. Outside of FF, PDF files can be viewed and no defunct processes are created, which leads me to believe that the problem is with FF.
ps -aux | grep acroread
<me> 4277 2.3 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:25 0:25 [acroread] <defunct>
Latest versions:
Fedora 2.6.34.8-68.fc13.i686 AdobeReader_enu-9.4.2-1.i486 firefox-3.6.16-1.fc13.i686
On 03/29/2011 11:38 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/29/2011 11:09 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
ps -aux | grep acroread
<me> 4277 2.3 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:25 0:25 [acroread]<defunct>
kill -9 4277
gets rid of it. Or, simply use this:
killall -9 accoread
and Bob's your uncle. HTH, HAND.
Yeah, that kills the process, but does not fix the problem. If I killed the process (4277), then tried to read a FF PDF document again, process 4277 reappears as defunct.
It turns out that Firefox was gnome session saved when rebooted and on start up restored 10 FF minimized windows and I did not notice this until now. The problem is, the restore of the 10 FF sessions were munged.
So I cleared/killed all the FF gnome session saves and rebooted. Everything is now back to normal.
Thanks for leading me towards the problem. Dan
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Joe Zeff