[26492] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.10: acroread
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chris avrich)
Sun Aug 7 14:30:28 2005
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:29:42 -0400
From: chris avrich <cda@mit.edu>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
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On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:37:43PM -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> I noticed that I too have such files, but after deleting them and running
> acroread again I don't seem to be able to generate any new ones despite
> opening multiple pdf files.
>
> Are you sure this is coming from acroread, and can you create these
> reproducibly, for any pdf file?
>
> I note that you are runnning Athena 9.4.10; all my machines are at 9.4.12.
> Can you try on a 9.4.12 machine and see if you still get these?
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:56:20AM -0400, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> Files of this sort are generally created by AFS when some program has
> a file open and that file is removed from the filesystem. Is it
> possible that something is removing the file while acroread (or
> something else) still has it open?
I'm currently away from campus, so I only have access over X, and to
(at newest) a 9.4.11 machine. I tried again, and noticed that only
one of the .__afsXXXX files is created per acroread session, and it
appears to be created when acroread is opened, judging by the time
stamp. So perhaps acroread is doing something on startup with a
temporary file in my homedir, that is then being removed improperly?
Contrary to what I'd thought, it doesn't appear to matter how many
PDF files are opened, or which. The file is left even when no PDF's
are opened in the acroread session.
There's no reason why, or evidence that, my PDF files are being deleted.
Interestingly, I tried this with the paco account, and saw that a
file called "RSS" was created in the homedir upon exiting. This
does not occur with my account. Since paco is a shared OLC test
account, though, this file could have been created by someone else;
although the contents of the file do have to do with acrobat (below).
I'll try this on a 9.4.12 machine on Tuesday when I return to campus.
Thanks,
-cda
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<</Contents [/c << /local_003a_002f_002fOfflineDocuments_002erss [/c << /ModDate [/t (D:20050807133540)]
/RSS [/c << /Description [/t (These are documents that I have taken offline)]
/Extension [/c << /http_003a_002f_002fns_002eadobe_002ecom_002fAcrobat_002fRSS_002fInbox_002f_003afeedUI [/t (local://OfflineTracker.js)]
/http_003a_002f_002fns_002eadobe_002ecom_002fAcrobat_002fRSS_002fInbox_002f_003amarkUnread [/t (false)]
>>]
/Items [/c <<>>]
/Title [/t (Offline Documents)]
/URL [/t (local://OfflineDocuments.rss)]
>>]
/State [/i 200]
/TTL [/i 10000]
/Type [/a /Internal]
/Verified [/b true]
>>]
/local_003a_002f_002fParticipantReviews_002erss [/c << /ModDate [/t (D:20050807133540)]
/RSS [/c << /Description [/t (These are document reviews that I am participating in)]
/Extension [/c << /http_003a_002f_002fns_002eadobe_002ecom_002fAcrobat_002fRSS_002fInbox_002f_003afeedUI [/t (local://ReviewTracker.js)]
/http_003a_002f_002fns_002eadobe_002ecom_002fAcrobat_002fRSS_002fInbox_002f_003amarkUnread [/t (false)]
>>]
/Items [/c <<>>]
/Title [/t (Participant Reviews)]
/URL [/t (local://ParticipantReviews.rss)]
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/State [/i 200]
/TTL [/i 10000]
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/Verified [/b true]
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/Feeds [/c << /0 [/t (local://ParticipantReviews.rss)]
/1 [/t (local://OfflineDocuments.rss)]
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