Created attachment 309219 [details] emerge.info The acroread shell wrapper through the current version (9.5.1) outputs an apparently inconsequential error message when run on a system without a GNOME installation. In 9.5.1, the offending command is on line 529, which doesn't validate that a target file (looked up in gconf) actually exists. In my case, I ran the command on line 527, which produced the result "epiphany" (the GNOME default browser?), which is not installed, leading to calling readlink and then dirname on an empty string.
This is bug in the upstream script so please report it upstream https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
(In reply to Christopher Smith from comment #0) > Created attachment 309219 [details] > emerge.info > > The acroread shell wrapper through the current version (9.5.1) outputs an > apparently inconsequential error message when run on a system without a > GNOME installation. > > In 9.5.1, the offending command is on line 529, which doesn't validate that > a target file (looked up in gconf) actually exists. In my case, I ran the > command on line 527, which produced the result "epiphany" (the GNOME default > browser?), which is not installed, leading to calling readlink and then > dirname on an empty string. I'd say this is a local configuration issue (your handler points to an invalid program). Here I don't have a Gnome installation, and the output is firefox.
