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Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'
On 2-12-2002 23:57, Charles Wilson wrote:
Andre Srinivasan wrote:
I noticed sometime in August or September that I could no longer
invoke acroreader (v5.0.5) via cygstart or directly from AcroRd32 if I
wanted to view a document. If I do invoke either, I get a Dr. Watson
(which I've appended). On the otherhand, if I invoke IE and pass it
the file to open, acroread starts fine within IE.
I've appended the drwtsn32 file.
Thanks.
The following works for me
(cygwin kernel version 1.3.17-1, W2k, Acroread 5.0.1 3/27/2001)
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 KHELDAR 1.3.17(0.67/3/2) 2002-11-27 18:54 i686 unknown
---- in ~/.bashrc (ignore stupid mailer-induced linewrap) ----
function pdfv ()
{
cygstart /d/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 5.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe
\"`cygpath -w -a $1`\" &
}
What's wrong with just
$ cygstart whatever.pdf
? ;-)
BTW, I don't see anything in your drwatson dump that implicates
cygstart. Everything on the stack seems to be inside windows DLLs.
Any comments, Michael?
( Michael Schaap cygwin_start AT mscha DOT org )
Oh, wait, that's me! ;-)
I'm pretty sure that it's not cygstart related. Cygstart doesn't really
do anything except tell Windows to start a program or open a file.
One difference between starting a program from Cygwin and from Explorer,
is the environment, most notably the $PATH. This might cause different
DLLs to be found.
Anyway, Andre also has problems when starting the reader directly, I
assume from the start menu (i.e. Explorer). So, it seems that this is
not a Cygwin problem at all.
That makes this problem off-topic for this mailing list :-) , but I
would try the following standard Microsoft troubleshooting steps:
1. Reboot, and see if the problem goes away
2. Uninstall and re-install Acrobat Reader, and see if it goes away
HTH,
- Michael
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