[27278] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.52: acroread
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Jan 27 16:26:56 2009
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To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:26:12 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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>> What were you trying to do?
>> Have firefox launch acroread to view a pdf file when going to a URL
>> ending with a pdf document
>>
>> What's wrong:
>> The document fails to open in acroread. When firefox is launched
>> from an xterm (but not when it's launched via the gnome
>> panel button),
>> the following error message prints in the launch window:
>>
>> dit.mit.edu:~ athena% ld.so.1: acroread: fatal: libBIB.so:
>> open
>> failed: No such file or directory
>Yes, this is a problem with Firefox 3 on Solaris.
>You can probably work around it by unsetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH_32 in
>your acroread wrapper
OK- I did this and it seems to work OK.
Thanks,
Alex
