ubuntu 12.04 64位 adobe plugin creates junk debug files: 'C:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt'

 

latest Adobe Reader for Linux (9.5.5) - its plugin for firefox named nppdf32.so creates junk debug files named: 'C:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt' in directories from where a firefox was executed.

This happens since Acrobat Reader 9.5.1 release.

 

How to make Adobe fixing this bug?

How to contact them efficiently?

This bug exists since 9.5.1 dated 04/09/2012 and Adobe do not care. Fix is trivial for Adobe: disable debug logging in release versions and stop using Windows path 'C:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt' in Linux products.

 

Workaround for this bug is trivial: open in hex editor: nppdf32.so file installed by Adobe Reader, go to position 0x0002193a in this file (or simply search for C:\ - there is only one place), and replace string:

C:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt

with:

/dev/null

Because string /dev/null is shorter than C:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt fill remainings of previous string with hex zeroes: 00 to keep everything in place.

 

Come on Adobe what's wrong with you! Why you do not provide such simple fix by yourself! It's 3 minutes of primitive work!

还有一种比较暴力的方法：

Linux版本的Acroread 9.5.1版本Firefox plugin会在当前目录产生名为C\:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt的垃圾日志文件，内容为若干行NPP_GetValue is called等等。
Disable它也不能解决问题。解决方法是粗暴地删除/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so。虽说只是个symlink，但乱删包管理系统安装的文件还是不好的嘛……可这个bug也太2了嘛……


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