From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 Description of problem: Following the path from the mozilla 1.0 page to plugins to Adobe for the Acrobat reader, either version 5.0.5 or 5.0.6 I obtained both versions. They work fine on Redhat 7.3 but abort on Redhat 8.0. I realize this is not a bug in mozilla; however, that is where users are likely to be led to it and it will adversely affect their satisfaction with Redhat 8.0. When you start the reader, you just get the message "Aborted". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Download the linux tar file from Adobe. 2.Unpack it and execute the INSTALL script. 3.Execute acroread from the the bin directory where installed. Additional info:
Try changing your LANG to something other than a utf8 locale. What is your LANG right now?
LANG is currently set to en_US.UTF-8. When I set it to en_US_ISO8859-15, acroread worked. Where does LANG get set when you login?
Two places: /etc/sysconfig/i18n and ~/.i18n you should be able to add something like: LANG="en_US" if you want. This is a known bug in acrobat and I can't fix it.
I added the LANG setting directly into the /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread script, near the top. This way it minimized the changes, since the rest of the system needs not be affected.