On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Mirko Streckenbach wrote: > Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I've never seen this and I constantly have five or more PDFs open and do > > searches all the time. > > I've done some debuging and it looks like a double free. Inside valgrind > acroread does not crash, but outputs the following at the relevant point: > > > Invalid free() / delete / delete[] > at 0x400138F5: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:231) > by 0x81FCD05: StdMemFreeProc (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread) > by 0x81FCEE5: ASfree (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread) > by 0x834BFD1: GetRidOfEncoded (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread) > Address 0x43B3FB94 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 7 free'd > at 0x400138F5: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:231) > by 0x81FCD05: StdMemFreeProc (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread) > by 0x81FCEE5: ASfree (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread) > by 0x81E783F: UnixDialogNotFoundAlert(char const *, _t_ASTextRec *, char const *) (in /mnt/pcg/public/packages/multimedia/acroread-5.0.8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread) > > > So I can suggest my users running it with valgrind ;-). Maybe if you post that information to the Adobe bug report page, that would speed up the resolution. One can only hope... http://www.adobe.com/misc/bugreport.html. > > > Yours, > Mirko Streckenbach > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs