[Bug 416145] New: acroread (Acrobat) doesn't open a window any more
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=416145 Summary: acroread (Acrobat) doesn't open a window any more Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: X11 Applications AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de QAContact: sndirsch@novell.com Found By: --- When starting "acroread" in 11.0, nothing happens, i.e. the command is busy for a while, and then the command terminates without showing any window. Version is use: acroread-8.1.2_SU1-0.1 The package verifies OK, except: .?..... /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/Resource/Support/AdobeReader.desktop When tracing the wrapper-script, the last command being executes is: + LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/lib/suse-do-not-grab-server.so + exec /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Stefan Dirsch
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--- Comment #4 from Ulrich Windl
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Ulrich Windl
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--- Comment #5 from Mike Fabian
Other strange things I see during a traced start are (many more omitted): open("/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/UTBI__18-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
This is unfortunately normal, Acroread sometimes scans all fonts in the system. This should not be necessary, especially as acroread has fontconfig support and applications using fontconfig should not need to check which fonts are available themselves. We switch on fontconfig support explicitly in the start script /usr/bin/acroread: # use fontconfig, see http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275088 ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG=1 export ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG But these font scanning delay is something Adobe should fix, we cannot do that. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #6 from Mike Fabian
Without those lines, acroread seems to block the whole X server while nothing seems to go on. I had to kill the process with -9 from another terminal, so I reverted that changes.
Avoiding this is the reason for our LD_PRELOAD hack. Without that hack, acroread blocks the whole X server for a long time while starting, on my machine for about 30 seconds which is very annoying. It unblocks the X server finally if it starts successfully but it is still very annoying not beeing able to do anything for 30 seconds. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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