I have a question about problems I'm having with printing out PDF files through Adobe's Acroreader on a recent Red Hat 9 installation, using the KDE desktop. The problem is that Acroreader hangs after sending the doc. to kprinter. Here's a typical scenario and some system specs:
* Use Acroread v.5.0.6 to open "~/test.pdf" (or any web-linked PDF, since the mozilla plugin is installed)
* In Acroread, go to print the document and in that window "Printer Command: kprinter" is used (very nice interface which makes it easy to do things like print 2 pgs/sheet, etc. compared to just doing lpr)
* Then pages spool through the program (being converted to postscript I think?) and the "Print - kprinter" window appears...
* Select any printer from the kprinter options and the following Error window appears:
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A print error occurred. Error message received from system:
/usr/bin/lpr -P 'mcca-tek850-duplex' '#1' '/tmp/Acro3JchKa': execution failed with message:
Warning - Cannot open file '/tmp/Acro3JchKa', No such file or directory mcca-tek850-duplex: nothing to print
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We installed acroread and its plugin from the RPMs (acroread-5.0.6-2 and acroread-plugin-5.0.6-2), and are running on a Red Hat 9 machine with kernel 2.4.20-13.9smp. I'm using the KDE 3.1 that's provided with this distro. The bizzare thing about this problem is that it's somehow connected to Acroreader's communication with KDE's "sycoca" system configuration cache -- because when I go through exactly the above procedure on one of the other rh9 machines in our network (over an ssh connection), the printing succeeds -- actually, it's kinda slow, and one of two windows pops-up from Acroreader: either (1) saying "kbuildsycoca running..." -- this happens even if I force a rebuild of the sycoca database (via '$> kbuildsycoca') before running Acroreader or (2) saying that "kbuildsycoca running..." and then >20 lines saying various links already exist:
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ld 'kde2.2/b1' was already in done-list!
ld 'kde3.1/cvs was already in done-list!
... etc. ....
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I'm relatively new to this, so I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this type of thing and fixed it?? Or know how to reset/re-install(?) the kde sycoca database and associated tools?? Or maybe what's the best way to simply re-install KDE from scratch, without ruining the present rh9 installation??
Thanks for any advice,
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