http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627964 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627964#c0 Summary: acroread throws many nasty symlink messages Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: koenig@linux.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- acroread-9.3.3-2.1.1 shows 395 messages like these at startup: ln: creating symbolic link `/home/koenig/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Resource/xulrunner-1.9/libjemalloc.so': File exists ln: creating symbolic link `/home/koenig/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Resource/xulrunner-1.9/res/charsetalias.properties': File exists ln: creating symbolic link `/home/koenig/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Resource/xulrunner-1.9/res/table-add-row-after-hover.gif': File exists ln: creating symbolic link `/home/koenig/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Resource/xulrunner-1.9/res/entityTables/htmlEntityVersions.properties': File exists [ ... ] ln: creating symbolic link `/home/koenig/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Resource/xulrunner-1.9/libsqlite3.so': File exists ln: creating symbolic link `/home/koenig/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Resource/xulrunner-1.9/libxpcom.so': File exists ln: creating symbolic link `/home/koenig/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Resource/xulrunner-1.9/xulrunner-bin': File exists ln: creating symbolic link `/home/koenig/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Resource/xulrunner-1.9/libgtkembedmoz.so': File exists which comes from the bug #457928 code in lines 567ff. a) you should suppress those messages (/dev/null is your friend) or even better use "ln -sfn" instead of "ln -s" b) why are you still poking to $HOME/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0 in acroread-9.3.3 ???? is this code still needed and vaild at all ??? to trigger this problem mozilla-xulrunner190-gnomevfs-32bit must be installed and mozilla-xulrunner181-32bit (and other xulrunner packages) mut not be installed (for details see the acroread script;-)) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.