Bug 262999 – app-text/acroread-8.1.3 nsplugin installed in firefox 64bit via nspluginwrapper but it doesn't work : new tab opened but page remains blank (no acroread interface)

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marcello Magaldi 2009-03-19 09:07:36 UTC]

I tried to install acroread nsplugin in my 64bit firefox using nspluginwrapper: 
nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/nppdf.so 

the plugin installs without problems but when I try to open a pdf document in firefox I get a new tab opened but acroread plugins doesn't load.
I tried launching the plugin in a terminal and I get :

/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/nppdf.so 
Segmentation fault

Anyway acroread works if launched by gnome menu or via acroread command in a terminal.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.USE="nsplugin" emerge acroread
2.nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/nppdf.so 
3. open a pdf document in firefox.

Actual Results:  
new tab opened in firefox but acroread plugins doesn't load


 emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5200+-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:20:01 +0000
distcc 3.0 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/"
LANG="it_IT.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8@euro"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="it en en_US en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb apache2 arts aspnet audiofile avahi bash-completion beagle berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 c++ cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr chm cli cracklib crypt css cups cvs cxx dbus dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode epiphany esd evo exif expat fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp galago gdbm gif gimp glade gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk guile hal hddtemp iconv id3tag imagemagick inotify ipv6 isdnlog java java6 javascript joystick jpeg kde kpathsea ladspa lame latex lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate live lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzo mad matroska midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nuv nvidia odbc offensive ogg ogm opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba scanner scrobbler sdl session shout smp sndfile socks5 sourceview spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog taglib tcpd theora threads thunderbird tiff timidity truetype twolame unicode upnp usb v4l v4l2 vcd videos vorbis wavpack wma wmf wxwindows x264 xcb xcomposite xemacs xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en en_US en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vga vesa nv"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Serkan Kaba (RETIRED) 2009-03-19 12:05:37 UTC]

This is probably an upstream problem but let's hear the maintainers.

[Comment 2 Marcello Magaldi 2009-03-19 18:49:59 UTC]

I don't know how or why but now acroread nsplugin is working in firefox ... launching it from a terminal makes it segfaults but perhaps it is not intended to be launched by a terminal. Should I mark this bug as RESOLVED INVALID ?

[Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-03-20 23:10:58 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Should I mark this bug as RESOLVED INVALID ?

Hard to judge because acroread is proprietary software. I'm with Serkan and think that this should be decided by the maintainers.

[Comment 4 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) 2009-06-17 23:55:23 UTC]

Thanks for your comments, closing since the plugin more or less works for you now and as Serkan and Lars already pointed out we can't do much about bugs in proprietary software itself.