[KLUG Members] Acrobat Reader under RH8

[Daniel]

>From /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RELEASE-NOTES-i386

"Distribution General Notes

     o Red Hat Linux now installs using UTF-8 (Unicode) locales by default in
       languages other than Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.

       This has been known to cause various issues:

       . Line drawing characters in applications such as make menuconfig do
       not always appear correctly in certain locales.

       . On the console, the latarcyrheb-sun16 font is used for best Unicode
       coverage. Due to the use of this font, bold colors are not available.

       . Certain third party applications, such as the Adobe(R) Acrobat
       Reader(R), may not function correctly (or crash upon startup) because
       they lack support for Unicode locales. Until third party developers
       provide such support in their products, you may work around this issue
       by setting the LANG environment variable at the shell prompt to C
       prior to typing the application name. For example:

       env LANG=C acroread
"



HTH



adam@morrison-ind.com extolled:
> Quoting adam@morrison.iserv.net:
> 
> > Anyone got acrobat reader working under rh8.0?  I get -
> > 
> > lnx01688:~ $acroread
> > Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
> > Aborted
> > lnx01688:~ $
> > 
> > Installed 5.05 from the tgz and ./INSTALL script
> 
> The following is my last gasp from strace.   I've never seen a path like the one
> in the first few access lines, possibly the script wrapper can't detect the
> installation directory?
> 
> access("/user/unibat/Build/Root/Motif1.2.3/l86glibc/lib/X11/en/bitmaps/_XmScrollBarUnavailableStipple",
> R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> access("/user/unibat/Build/Root/Motif1.2.3/l86glibc/lib/X11/bitmaps/_XmScrollBarUnavailableStipple",
> R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> access("/user/unibat/Build/Root/Motif1.2.3/l86glibc/include/X11/bitmaps/_XmScrollBarUnavailableStipple",
> R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> write(3, "7\2\6\0\322\0\340\0016\0\0\0\4\0\1\0\377\377\0\0\0\0\0"..., 160) =
> 160read(3, "\1\1]\4\0\0\0\0006\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\370"..., 32) = 32
> write(3, "<\2\2\0\324\0\340\0017\0\7\0\325\0\340\0016\0\0\0\0\t\1"..., 184) = 184
> read(3, "\1 d\4\1\0\0\0!\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\3203\264\10\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
> read(3, "\1\0\0\2", 4)                  = 4
> write(3, "\24\0\6\0\1\0\0\2b\0\0\0b\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\240\206\1\0", 24) = 24
> read(3, "\1\10e\4\20\1\0\0b\0\0\0\0\0\0\0@\4\0\0\3203\264\10\0\0"..., 32) = 32
> readv(3, [{"l\0-\0p\1\0\0_\0\0\0\23\0\7@b\0\0\0\27\0\7@a\0\0\0\22\0"..., 1088},
> {"", 0}], 2) = 1088
> write(3, "+\0\1\0", 4)                  = 4
> read(3, "\1\2f\4\0\0\0\0\230\f\300\1\1\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\370"..., 32) = 32
> write(3, "\24\0\6\0\1\0\0\2a\0\0\0a\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\240\206\1\0", 24) = 24
> read(3, "\1\10g\4\4\0\0\0a\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\3203\264\10\0"..., 32) = 32
> readv(3, [{"l\0\1\0\20\0\0\0\246\1\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16}, {"", 0}], 2) = 16
> write(3, "+\0\1\0", 4)                  = 4
> read(3, "\1\2h\4\0\0\0\0\230\f\300\1\1\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\370"..., 32) = 32
> write(3, "\24\0\6\0\1\0\0\2`\0\0\0`\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\240\206\1\0", 24) = 24
> read(3, "\1\10i\4\n\0\0\0`\0\0\0\0\0\0\0&\0\0\0\3203\264\10\0\0"..., 32) = 32
> readv(3, [{"l\0\3\0&\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\37\0\0\0\4\0\37\0\0\0\334"..., 38},
> {"\7@", 2}], 2) = 40
> write(3, "+\0\1\0", 4)                  = 4
> read(3, "\1\2j\4\0\0\0\0\230\f\300\1\1\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\370"..., 32) = 32
> gettimeofday({1037282566, 954020}, NULL) = 0
> write(3, "F\0\5\0\326\0\340\1\322\0\340\1\0\0\0\0\v\0L\0B\206\v\0"..., 116) = 116
> read(3, "\1\20n\4\0\0\0\0006\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\364\1w\1\0\0\0\0\370"..., 32) = 32
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [SEGV], NULL, 8) = 0
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0
> getpid()                                = 27293
> kill(27293, SIGABRT)                    = 0
> --- SIGABRT (Aborted) ---
> +++ killed by SIGABRT +++
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