acroread_9.4.1-1lucid1_amd64.deb package breaks dpkg, refuses to install or purge

[Nils Altenbach]

Binary package hint: acroread

I added a launchpad repository containing acroread to my sources.list - and apt-get upgrade broke my dpkg when it downloaded acroread_9.4.1-1lucid1_amd64.deb and tried to install it. I had been using that repository for a while, all earlier versions of acroread worked fine. This one just made dpkg crash so that I had to kill -9 it. Now every time I run dpkg - from apt-get, from aptitude, or directly - it just freezes and turns zombie until I kill it.

This is what I got (I tend to activate root login under Ubuntu, since I like doing some serious admin work on the console):

root@aphrodite:~# dpkg -i acroread_9.4.1-1lucid1_amd64.deb
(Lese Datenbank ... 632800 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von acroread 9.4-1lucid1 (durch acroread_9.4.1-1lucid1_amd64.deb) ...
No LSB modules are available.
nspluginwrapper: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.nppdf.so is not a valid nspluginwrapper plugin
Killed

As you can see, I'm German. But the interesting messages are in English.

[Nils Altenbach (schwarzlicht)]

It appears that the installer/deinstaller script is running gtk-update-icon, which then uses up to 85% CPU and runs forever without terminating.

[Brian Thomason (brian-thomason)]

Hi Nils, I was unable to reproduce the issue. Can you tell me what versions of ia32-libs and libgtk2.0-0 you have installed? Also, can you run update-gtk-icon-cache independently and see if it still locks up? If so, try running an strace and see if it reveals anything interesting.

Thanks!

[Nils Altenbach (schwarzlicht)]

ia32-libs 2.7ubuntu26
libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-ubuntu4

Actually, I was able to successfully install the package after running update-gtk-icon-cache manually, but update-gtk-icon-cache took several hours to finish and used up to 80% CPU.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, a new acroread release (0.9.4) is available for update, could you give it a try and tell us if the problem persists?
If you still have this bug please set back the status to "new"
thanks

[Florian Kauer (koalo)]

I still have this bug in 12.04. LTS.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for acroread (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]