Re: Firefox Acroread plugin not working

On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:51, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Sunday 23 April 2006 10:23, Stanton Finley wrote:

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 05:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Sunday 23 April 2006 04:58, Chris Lale wrote:

Chris Lale wrote:

I cannot view PDFs using Firefox in Etch (Testing). I get:

   "There was an error while loading the plugin - ewh.api. The
plugin failed to initialize."

I have these packages installed:

   acroread 7.0.5-0.0
   mozilla-acroread 7.0.5-0.0

As root do a "yum -y remove acroread mozilla-acroread" and then
follow the instructions in the Adobe Reader section at
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html.
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Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/

And I forgot to note in the previous message that for some reason,
selinux is disabling acroread unless set for permissive.  This needs
addressed also.  I don't want to have to depend on a tail of the log
to tell me when things are going in the toilet.

To add more details, I have now read the manpage for selinux, touched /.autorelabel and rebooted after setting selinux back to enforcing. It did re-run the autolabeling function on the reboot. No change, an attempt to run acroread from the icon fails, and from the cli, this message is output:

[root@diablo ~]# acroread

/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/libJP2K.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

I've investigated the system-config-securitylevel thing, which FWIW thought it was in the enforcing mode when /etc/selinux/config said otherwise, so thats obviously broken right there, and went thru the menu's looking for something to check or uncheck but didn't find any 'suspects' that might control the above.

This subject has been noted, at some length now in this and similar threads, with no one offering a helpfull comment so far. Is this something that only the NSA can answer? Or is there an FM I haven't read because I don't know of its existance so I can do the RT portion?

Lauri