Søndag 18 april 2004 15:25 kvad Anders Johansson:
Could you do
strace acroread > acroread.strace 2>&1
and send the file acroread.strace? (Possibly off-list, since I believe the list strips attachments, or perhaps you can put it up for download somewhere). It may contain some clues
Good day Anders,
the trace has been gzipped and put here:
As you can see if you scroll to the end of that file, acroread suffers a segmentation fault when it deals with the font file /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/brass_monkey.ttf
This is not a font I have, It could be that that font is broken. Try moving that to somewhere else, run SuSEconfig --module fonts, and then running acroread again.
If that doesn't work, try the strace again, perhaps a couple of times to see of it always aborts at the same place
Good day Anders, thank you very much. :o) Indeed it was the font that made acroread segfault. Actually, in my case it was two fonts. The funny thing is that OOo handles these two fonts just fine. But being only two font I can live without them. I resolved the problem, thanks to you Anders, like this: 1. As an ordinary user I ran the trace you showed me: strace acroread > acroread.strace 2>&1 2. I then looked at the generated file acroread.strace, going to the bottom and reading up until I bumped into a line saying something like "open(<some ttf file>) 3. As root i then removed the offending ttf file and ran, as you showed me: SuSEconfig --module fonts 4. As an ordinary user I then tried to start acroread If acroread would still not start I would go through steps 1-4 again. Finally I seem to have removed all the ttf files that acroread didn't like so that finally acroread would start. Now everything works as it used to. Than you very much again Anders :o) Best regards :o) Johnny :o)