[opensuse] odd problem with acroread


Today I noticed that acroread plugin for firefox was not working and
found the plugin was not on disk. I know not why, haven't had any
reason or case to mess with it :^(

Acroread itself would not start, appeared files were gone, but rpm
still showed it installed.

So I reinstalled acroread, acroread-8.1.2-1.10@i586
This is an x86_64 system, but I have not had problems with x86 packages.
openSUSE 10.1
firefox 2.0.0.14

I still cannot run acroread and it will not work in firefox. Trying
to start from a text window yields:

20:02 wahoo:~ > acroread.trace acroread
/bin/pwd: couldn't find directory entry in ../..' with matching i-node
/bin/pwd: couldn't find directory entry in ../..' with matching i-node
/usr/bin/acroread: line 81: cd: /../lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin: No such
file or directory
/bin/pwd: couldn't find directory entry in ../..' with matching i-node
ERROR: Cannot determine current directory.


I found one report on google, but no resolution, suggestion of bad
glibc. I don't believe this correct as I would expect many more/other
errors with that, but reinstalled glibc-2.4-31.43.7

still no glory, strace available:
http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/acroread.trace

tks,
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