Re: [aur-general] aur/acroread broken - request for help

[G. Schlisio]

after intensive search it looks like gcc6 is at fault here.
more details at the bug tracker [0].

[0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49622



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Re: [aur-general] aur/acroread broken - request for help

[G. Schlisio]

> let me guest, you are using lib32-libxcb 1.12 and downgrading to 1.11.1
> your program work.

not much guessing required, that was in the text.

> your program is a 32 bit excecutable in a 64bit environment.

yes, otherwise it wouldnt need a multilib package

> I have that issue with zsnes and lib32-xcb 1.12 make zsnes coredump but
> 1.11.1 no... in a 64bit environment.

ok, makes 3 of us.

> So if someone could test if your adobe is a 32bit program in a 64bit arc
> with lib32-libxcb 1.11.1 working but 1.12 not we can start asumming that
> the fault is libxcb as multilib builded.

ok, starting to see a pattern there. i'll ask at xcb's place for help
and will report back if anything helpful comes up.



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Re: [aur-general] aur/acroread broken - request for help

[G. Schlisio]

> Have you (both of you) raised a bug [1], sent a mail [2] [3] or dropped
> a line on IRC [4] ?  You may well have found a regression, and it would
> be very helpful if you could give as much details as possible over the
> relevant channels :)
> 
> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
> [2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/Xcb
> [3] https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
> [4] irc://irc.freenode.net/xorg

why would i file a bug at freedesktop.org?
i honestly did not even think about it because in my opinion its adobes
fault, and libxcb can most certainly do nothing about it. do you still
think its a good idea?
i'll try irc and ask for their opinion…



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Re: [aur-general] aur/acroread broken - request for help

[Eric Engestrom]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 09:28:48PM +0200, Jens Adam wrote:
> Fri, 3 Jun 2016 18:13:41 +0200
> "G. Schlisio" :
> 
> > some things about lib32-libxcb (running on an x86_64 machine) [2].
> > downgrading libxcp to version 1.11.1 seems to fix this temporarily,
> > but doesnt provide a long term solution.
> > [2] http://pastebin.com/f3Py5LDn
> 
> Not exactly very helpful, but I wanted to let you know that I had the
> same problem with a very old/proprietary/binary 32-bit application I'm
> using.
> 
> Running it on the laptop (CoreDuo, no x86_64 support) with Arch i686:
> no issues.
> On the x86_64 desktop Arch I had to downgrade lib32-libxcb to 1.11.1,
> like you.
> 
> Any further insight appreciated.
> 
> --byte

Have you (both of you) raised a bug [1], sent a mail [2] [3] or dropped
a line on IRC [4] ?  You may well have found a regression, and it would
be very helpful if you could give as much details as possible over the
relevant channels :)

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
[2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/Xcb
[3] https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
[4] irc://irc.freenode.net/xorg

Re: [aur-general] aur/acroread broken - request for help

[Jens Adam]

Fri, 3 Jun 2016 18:13:41 +0200
"G. Schlisio" :

> some things about lib32-libxcb (running on an x86_64 machine) [2].
> downgrading libxcp to version 1.11.1 seems to fix this temporarily,
> but doesnt provide a long term solution.
> [2] http://pastebin.com/f3Py5LDn

Not exactly very helpful, but I wanted to let you know that I had the
same problem with a very old/proprietary/binary 32-bit application I'm
using.

Running it on the laptop (CoreDuo, no x86_64 support) with Arch i686:
no issues.
On the x86_64 desktop Arch I had to downgrade lib32-libxcb to 1.11.1,
like you.

Any further insight appreciated.

--byte


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Re: [aur-general] aur/acroread broken - request for help

[John D Jones III via aur-general]

On 06/03/16 10:13, G. Schlisio wrote:

downgrading libxcp to version 1.11.1 seems to fix this temporarily
Perhaps you could make a PKGBUILD for this exact version of libxcp, call 
it libxcp111 and make it a dependency for acroread? Seems that 
maintaining that PKGBUILD would be rather hands off, since it's not 
likely to have the 1.11 revision updated anymore. But it'd be in the 
same spirit as say libpng14 ( maybe might have to do a lib32- pkgbuild 
too? )


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Re: [aur-general] aur/acroread broken - request for help

[G. Schlisio]

> Honestly, I gave up on keeping the Linux version of Adobe Reader
> running long since — but it's honestly unnecessary. Adobe Reader 11
> works flawlessly under Wine, with a little assistance from Winetricks.
> 
> […]
>
> I hope that resolves your issues.

thank you, this is already one of the mentioned workarounds. i will
reference your detailed instructions there.
still, this does not fix the actual package, which is my ultimate goal.
if it proves unfixable, it will be removed from AUR, but until then i
will try to find a solution.



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Re: [aur-general] aur/acroread broken - request for help

[Patrick Burroughs (Celti)]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 18:13:41 +0200
"G. Schlisio"  wrote:

> hi list,
> 
> the aur package for adobes pdf reader acroread [0] is broken since 2
> weeks now.
> it ships an outdated version of this software, because adobe stopped
> building it for linux in may 2013.

Honestly, I gave up on keeping the Linux version of Adobe Reader
running long since — but it's honestly unnecessary. Adobe Reader 11
works flawlessly under Wine, with a little assistance from Winetricks.

Run the following commands:
$ curl -O 
https://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.10/en_US/AdbeRdr11010_en_US.exe
$ export WINEDEBUG=-all WINEARCH=win32 
WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wineprefixes/acroread/
$ winetricks prefix=acroread win7 atmlib riched20 wsh57 mspatcha
$ wine AdbeRdr11010_en_US.exe
# When prompted during installation, select “Manual” for updates.
$ winetricks prefix=acroread winxp

That sequence will install Adobe Reader 11 and all its necessary
support DLLs into a dedicated Wine bottle, and Wine nowadays is smart
enough to generate .desktop files that find it, use the correct prefix,
and even associate PDFs and PDF forms with it.

I hope that resolves your issues.
~Celti


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[aur-general] aur/acroread broken - request for help

[G. Schlisio]

hi list,

the aur package for adobes pdf reader acroread [0] is broken since 2
weeks now.
it ships an outdated version of this software, because adobe stopped
building it for linux in may 2013.
still some people are bound to this for several reasons, so please dont
make this thread a discussion about their decision to use this piece of
software.

so 2 weeks ago it started do develop problems later identified as
related to networking/ipv6. crashing silently after 15s while parsing
/etc/hosts. some workarounds were found, none of which was very satisfying.
since two days now it crashes immediately on startup, without any notice.
the stack trace [1] does not make any sense to me, but gdb spit out some
things about lib32-libxcb (running on an x86_64 machine) [2].
downgrading libxcp to version 1.11.1 seems to fix this temporarily, but
doesnt provide a long term solution.
for that i am stuck, so any help from the list is well appreciated. can
someone make sense of that stack trace or the gdb output, and can we
draw conclusions (like shipping outdated libraries with the package in
an extra folder) to make this work again in long term (aka until the
next breakage)?

again, please contribute technical advice only, no discussion about free
software here, please.

best regards
georg
(maintainer of acroread)


[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acroread
[1] http://pastebin.com/FhQM3izE
[2] http://pastebin.com/f3Py5LDn



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