A fix for Acrobat Reader crash on launch problems

Jan 20, '03 09:05:04AM

Contributed by: osx_4me

Seemingly out of the blue, Acrobat (Reader) was crashing at launch ("Application has unexpectedly quit"). I trashed the prefs for Acrobat, and the problem persisted. I checked for a crash log in ~/Library -> Logs -> CrashReporter
and read the AcrobatReader 5.0.crash.log (if you double-click on the file, it should just open up in the Console utility). Two lines caught my eye:

#1 0x001e4640 in LanguageSelector::ChooseSystemLanguage(void)
#2 0x001e3d5c in LanguageSelector::OpenDefaultLanguageResFile(void)
And that seemed pretty strange to me (!): Acrobat was trying to check my language setting(s) and found nothing ? Hmm...

So, I opened my System Preferences -> International Prefs, and clicked on the Language tab. In order to force a value to be written (not sure where that pref lives...), I dragged French to the top of the list and closed the Pref panel (Show All). I opened it again and moved English back to the top of the list and quit out of System Preferences (be sure not to skip this step!) ... and voila - the problem was fixed, Acrobat Reader launched fine.

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