Execute acroread with Strace - Need help

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Mickey <binarynut at 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.


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