278021 - Browser closes when acroread attempts to display pdf file

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Townsend]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040929
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040929

The pdf file pointed at by
  http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-5080->Download->HTTP
is (apparently) downloaded, the `acroread-5.0.10' spash
screen is displayed, `mozilla-bin' dies with exit code 9
and `acroread' goes away (no file?).

Note that this also occurs if "FTP" is clicked or if the file
is explicitly downloaded (via nozilla_1.8a4) and an attempt
is made to display it via `mozilla'.

Note also that `acroread-5.0.10' has no problem displaying the
local file directly.

Note also that the same thing occurs with the `mozilla_1.7.5'
browser.

`uname -a' returns

  SunOS my.machine.my.domain 5.8 Generic_117350-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

"mozilla_1.8a4" was downloaded from the 

  http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on specified link  or
2.Download the pdf file to the local
  machine and attempt to display via
  the `mozilla' browser'.
  
Actual Results:  
No browser 

Expected Results:  
`acroread' should display the file.

Comment 1

[Paul Townsend]

Further investigation indicates that it can't display any pdf file
and that it's dying in the acroread "nppdf.so" plugin even
though the helper application entry in preferences indicates
that it's supposed to use `acroread' directly.

FWIW, the "nppdf.so" plugin is failing because it can't find the
symbol "XmProcessTraversal" which is resident in the libXm library.
If I execute from the command line as

  LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libXm.so mozilla

`mozilla' doesn't fail.

Comment 2

[Paul Townsend]

This problem appears to be fixed in the 1.8a6 revision.  I was able to
load a pdf document with both the gtk-1.2 and gtk-2 variants.

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

No bug / patch specified as the fix.

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