CentOS - May 2007 - AcroRead failing miserably in CentOS 5.0

I could swear that this was working just last week, but now when I run
the Adobe Acrobat reader, it hangs.  If I run it "directly"
(/usr/bin/acroread) with -DEBUG as the first argument, I get an
infinite loop of:

expr: syntax error

I tried removing and reinstalling it, but no change.

Any ideas?

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On 5/18/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I could swear that this was working just last week, but now when I run
> the Adobe Acrobat reader, it hangs.  If I run it "directly"
> (/usr/bin/acroread) with -DEBUG as the first argument, I get an
> infinite loop of:
rpm -qf /usr/bin/acroread

my version is 7.0.9-1.el5 which points to

/usr/lib/acroread/bin/acroread

works for me... does audit2allow or something point up problems?

restorecon -R -v /usr/lib/acroread



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On Fri, 18 May 2007 17:35:44 -0700
"Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could swear that this was working just last week, but now when
> I run the Adobe Acrobat reader, it hangs.  If I run it "directly"
> (/usr/bin/acroread) with -DEBUG as the first argument, I get an
> infinite loop of:
> 
> expr: syntax error
> 
> I tried removing and reinstalling it, but no change.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
# gedit /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread

Make the following changes:

Line ~418:
From:
   echo $mfile| sed
's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
To:
   echo $mfile| sed
's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

Line ~643:
From:
   MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"
To:
   MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"


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> Any ideas?
> 
If you come across any more issues like this in CentOS 5, do a search on
the fedora forums http://fedoraforum.org , since there are lots of well-
known FC6 problems, and this was one of them.