Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > #! /bin/bash > export LC_ALL=C > exec /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread "$@" This helps only against the startup crash, but acroread still crashes / hangs when searching a term which cannot be found in the document (after closing the "No occurences of ... were found in the document" dialog, the "searching for ..." window reappears, acroread prints "Exited with error code: 0x400e0009." on the console and loops idefinetly (must be killed by SIGKILL, SIGTERM is not sufficient) or crashes right away. Yours, Mirko Streckenbach