Re: Fedora and Adobe Reader

From: Clark (who_at_whoknows.com)
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:42:29 GMT

I have tried installing using both the RPM and the tar. With the RPM it
will run, but not well. With the tar, it will not even start. I figure
it must be some type of path problem, but I have installed all the
libraries I think I need.

I installed it in Ubuntu without problems, so something about the way
Fedora is set up must be different and causing a problem.

Clark

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:59:12 +0000, Clark wrote:
>
>> I am trying to install Adobe's Reader 7.0 in Fedora Core 4. It seems to
>> install fine and runs when selected, but if I click on almost any of the
>> menu items, preferences being a big one, the program closes without any
>> messages.
>>
>> Since I am fairly new, can anyone lead me to a trouble shooting method
>> that will help find the problem. I did try strace, but it locks up and
>> a reboot is required, assuming I am doing it right. What I did see was
>> an indication that some folders might be missing, like
>> root/.icons/Bluecurve/index.theme and
>> usr/share/pixmaps/default/cursors/Left_side. If either one of these is
>> important, do you know where I can get them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Clark
>
> I'm running Acroread on FC4. I installed it from the tar file not from the
> rpm. I'm not having the problems you are but there are some bad bugs in
> Acroread. There is a memory leak that can causes Acroread to get huge,
> I've see it suck up about a gigabyte overnight. It also goes into a mode
> where it consumes 100% of the CPU, it's a low priority thread that's doing
> it so you can still use it even when it's in that mode. In both cases the
> solution is to shut it down and restart it. In FC3 it has another problem
> where it would eat 10Mb of X server memory every time you opened a menu,
> it doesn't do that in FC4.

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