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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:19:48 -0400
From:      "T.Sikora" <tsikora@home.com>
To:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Stable breaks acroread port
Message-ID:  <3AE47244.88BEF5A4@home.com>
References:  <20010423101120.A24220@Clarke.i-pi.com> <15076.21943.393094.42415@guru.mired.org>

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Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
> Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> types:
> > I was running acroread fine from the ports for months:
> > acroread4-4.05      View, distribute and print PDF documents
> 
> I've been running it for quite some time. In fact, I'm running it now
> to view and print PDF documents. My system was updated on the
> yesterday - the 22nd. It was also updated the 15th, and I probably
> used it at least once in the interim.
> 
> > On 4/13, I upgraded to 4.2-STABLE, and this broke acroread.  I
> > upgraded again 4/18 (this time 4.3-RC), hoping it would solve the
> > problem, but no go.  I noticed that the port did not change either
> > time.
> 
> Upgrading the system won't update the port, unless you're updating the
> ports tree at the same time.
> 
> > The problem is that acroread dies with the following (wonderfully
> > helpful, thanks Adobe) error message:
> > Exited with error code: 0x400e0009.
> >
> > It's not Linux emulation that is broken, because other Linux programs
> > still run fine (e.g. StarOffice, Netscape, etc).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Did you change anything else while doing the update? Kernel, maybe?
> Did you reinstall acroread at some point?
> 

Same problem... did a build/installworld on several machines yesterday
and it hangs 
on all on the splash screen.

--
Ted Sikora
Jtl Development Group
tsikora@powerusersbbs.com

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