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