acroread fails to start

Corrected version: acroread 7.0.9-0.0.ubuntu0.7.04+medibuntu2

At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:33:31 +0000,
Snah Nosrovlah wrote:
>
> Public bug reported:
>
> Most of the software on my computer is from the gutsy development
> repositories
>
> Acroread version: acroread-7.0.9-0.0.ubuntu.0.7
>
> # acroread
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> .....
>
> never starts.
>
> ** Affects: medibuntu (upstream)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> acroread fails to start
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131949
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:47:03AM -0000, Snah Nosrovlah wrote :
> Corrected version: acroread 7.0.9-0.0.ubuntu0.7.04+medibuntu2
>
> At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:33:31 +0000,
> Snah Nosrovlah wrote:
> >
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > Most of the software on my computer is from the gutsy development
> > repositories
> >
> > Acroread version: acroread-7.0.9-0.0.ubuntu.0.7
> >
> > # acroread
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > expr: syntax error
> > .....
> >
> > never starts.
> >
> > ** Affects: medibuntu (upstream)
> > Importance: Undecided
> > Status: New
> >
> > --
> > acroread fails to start
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131949
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
>
> --
> acroread fails to start
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131949
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Medibuntu
> Bugs, which is the bug contact for Medibuntu.
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Yep, noticed this too. As I really don't have time to look into it
(/usr/bin/acroread is quite complex) , a simple workaround, although it's an
ugly one, is to modify the first line of /usr/bin/acroread and replace
/bin/bash by /bin/zsh (of course you'll need zsh), or run zsh /usr/bin/acroread
directly.
Cheers

--
Albin Tonnerre, aka Lutin
 - Search a little longer, travel a little further

OK, thanks for the workaround.

By the way: I also cannot start acroread from the menu in gnome.

At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:08:33 +0000,
Albin Tonnerre wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:47:03AM -0000, Snah Nosrovlah wrote :
> > Corrected version: acroread 7.0.9-0.0.ubuntu0.7.04+medibuntu2
> >
> > At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:33:31 +0000,
> > Snah Nosrovlah wrote:
> > >
> > > Public bug reported:
> > >
> > > Most of the software on my computer is from the gutsy development
> > > repositories
> > >
> > > Acroread version: acroread-7.0.9-0.0.ubuntu.0.7
> > >
> > > # acroread
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > expr: syntax error
> > > .....
> > >
> > > never starts.
> > >
> > > ** Affects: medibuntu (upstream)
> > > Importance: Undecided
> > > Status: New
> > >
> > > --
> > > acroread fails to start
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131949
> > > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > > of the bug.
> >
> > --
> > acroread fails to start
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131949
> > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Medibuntu
> > Bugs, which is the bug contact for Medibuntu.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bugs mailing list
> > <email address hidden>
> > http://lists.medibuntu.org/mailman/listinfo/bugs
>
> Yep, noticed this too. As I really don't have time to look into it
> (/usr/bin/acroread is quite complex) , a simple workaround, although it's an
> ugly one, is to modify the first line of /usr/bin/acroread and replace
> /bin/bash by /bin/zsh (of course you'll need zsh), or run zsh /usr/bin/acroread
> directly.
> Cheers
>
> --
> Albin Tonnerre, aka Lutin
> - Search a little longer, travel a little further
>
> --
> acroread fails to start
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131949
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

This fix works for me as well. Muchas Gracias!

Here is a possible patch for /usr/bin/acroread which should fix this issue (the regexp that detects the gtk lib doesn't work, and the script is stuck in an endless loop).

bzr branch updated with this patch.

Uploaded into gutsy.

I've had Gusty since day 1 and no matter how many time I recompile Acrobat Reader 7.0.9 from their .tar.gz, I get the same error. My computer is current up-to-date from 2007-09-10

Hi,

This issue should be fixed with the 7.0.9-0.0.ubuntu0.7.10+medibuntu1 package, could you retry please?
Thanks.

Well how do you get Mediubuntu to work for Gusty?

echo "deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gusty free non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

Doesn't appear to work:

Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org gusty Release.gpg
...
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org gusty/non-free Packages
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org gusty/free Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 193.34.16.167 80]
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org gusty/non-free Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 193.34.16.167 80]
...
Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/gusty/free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 193.34.16.167 80]
Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/gusty/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 193.34.16.167 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

The next version is called GUTSY and not gusty, just update your souces.list and i should works.

Maxence

Now my auto update has picked up the new version and it works without problems. No need to edit /usr/bin/acroread any more.

brettalton, note that the distro's name is "gutsy", not "gusty".

So the commands to enter are

echo "deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

Much obliged to the both of you. It is now working correctly.