Acroread leaves defunct zombie procs & pdfs are blank
I am having an issue on a SuSE 11 sp1 box where opening a pdf after closing one gives me a blank screen.
a ps -ef | grep acro* shows [acroread]<defunct> for the acroread process that was running.
I noticed that I can open & close as many as 20 pdfs from a web page with no problem. Everytime I close one out I leave an additional acroread defunct process running. I can do this all day long.
If I close out one & go to a different web page to open a pdf, I get the blank screen and the ps -ef | grep acro* never shows a process starting.
This is becoming a critical issue here. The answer to just restart the browser every time is not gonna fly around here.
SuSE 11 v.1
Adobe Reader 9.4.2-1
Firefox 3.5.19
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Is there anywhere that I can run a debug for Firefox to see what is happening when it closes out acroread and leaves the zombie? Running in SuSE11
This is not a mozilla bug, as far as I can see. It rather appears to be Adobe's fault. Anyway, I had the same problem and, since I could not find a solution in the web, I wrote a small workaround program.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3FwjbIvaqp5ZTFlYTg4MTItOTM3MS00YmJmLThhY2QtZTJjN2E1NjQ1NjI0
You'll find some hint on what's under the hood in the comment at the beginning of the file acroread_interceptor.c
Hope it will help you.
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