From: forkosh@panix.com   
      
   Jim Diamond  wrote:   
   > John Forkosh  wrote:   
   >> Jim Diamond  wrote:   
   >>> <>   
   >>> On the other hand, if I select Edit/Preferences, acroread crashes   
   >>> about three seconds later. Just out of curiosity, does yours also   
   >>> do that?  Jim   
   >>   
   >> As previously, nope, mine doesn't do that.   
   >> But as it turns out, Javier's suggestion (see my second followup   
   >> to him) immediately solves all my acroread problems...   
   >> from the command line   
   >>    GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc   
   >>    export GTK2_RC_FILES   
   >> and then run acroread. And I've got no edit/preferences problem, either.   
   >> So try that, and then let us know whether or not that edit/preferences   
   >> problem you're having is (or isn't) also fixed. Hopefully, it's all good.   
   >> Very nice to have acroread available again.   
   >   
   > I installed acroread in a "fresh" S15-64+compat32 virtual machine.   
   > And, like you, acroread didn't start (*) without the GTK2_RC_FILES   
   > value.  (Rather than exporting the variable as above, I just did   
   >   GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc acroread file.pdf   
   > to get the value to acroread.)   
   >   
   > (*) I discovered that (in the virtual machine) I only needed to use   
   > that if the ~/.adobe directory (and subdirectories) have are not   
   > there.  After the first run, I didn't need to use that environment   
   > variable again.  But if I deleted ~/.adobe, then acroread won't run   
   > without the variable being in the environment.   
      
   Thanks for that additional info.   
   I hadn't noticed that myself.   
      
   > Now I can do some binary search to find the difference between my VM   
   > and my bare-iron installations.  Not my idea of a good time, but...   
      
   Well, at least we know it consistently works under the same environment   
   on both machines. And I suppose there's clearly some minimum environment   
   it needs to run. Please followup again if you find the components of   
   that minimum environment your "bare-iron install" is missing. Thanks,   
   --   
   John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )   
      
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