[gutsy] Recent updates broke Adobe Reader

[Octavian Florea]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 23:25:09 you wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Art Alexion wrote:
> > The updates are fast, furious and daily.  One of them in the last few
> > days seem to have broken Adobe Reader.  Here is the error message:
> >
> > Gtk-CRITICAL!!: gtk_rc_get_style assertion: `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)'
> > failed
> >
> > Before anyone suggests it, I know I can use kpdf.  I know kpdf is open
> > source and acroread is not.  I like acroread and it reads certain pdf
> > files that kpdf does not.  Any help getting it working again will be
> > greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm all up to date on  Kubuntu and Acroread works fine here.
>
> Try a re-install.

A workaround has been posted on UbuntuForums. 

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=515971

Worked for me