Firefox Acroread plugin not working

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 13:58 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:36, Lauri wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>>> --
> >>>> 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 at 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?
> >
> ># chcon -t texrel_shlib_t
> >/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/*.so
> >
> >Lauri
> 
> Thank you very much Lauri, that worked like a champ.  But why does it 
> seem to be such a huge secret other than its ulitmately being usefull 
> to the blackhats?
> 
> I assume that this command line (the top line above) can be used against 
> any other known good (we think) but similarly malfunctioning (the 
> bottom line above) program?
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why don't you ask Adobe to include it in a post-install script?

Craig