problems running Acrobat Reader 5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Mirko Streckenbach wrote:

> Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat.com> writes:
>
> > I've never seen this and I constantly have five or more PDFs open and do
> > searches all the time.
>
> I've done some debuging and it looks like a double free. Inside valgrind
> acroread does not crash, but outputs the following at the relevant point:
>
>
>  Invalid free() / delete / delete[]
>     at 0x400138F5: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:231)
>     by 0x81FCD05: StdMemFreeProc (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread)
>     by 0x81FCEE5: ASfree (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread)
>     by 0x834BFD1: GetRidOfEncoded (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread)
>     Address 0x43B3FB94 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 7 free'd
>     at 0x400138F5: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:231)
>     by 0x81FCD05: StdMemFreeProc (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread)
>     by 0x81FCEE5: ASfree (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread)
>     by 0x81E783F: UnixDialogNotFoundAlert(char const *, _t_ASTextRec *, char const *) (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread)
>
>
> So I can suggest my users running it with valgrind ;-).

Maybe if you post that information to the Adobe bug report page, that
would speed up the resolution.  One can only hope...

http://www.adobe.com/misc/bugreport.html.

>
>
> Yours,
> Mirko Streckenbach
>
>
>

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		Matthew Saltzman

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