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I applied @olvie's patch to bundle the old harfbuzz and glib libs, acroread should work now.

There are reports about this software dying after 15s again.
known workarounds:
• use another pdf-reader whereever possible
• use acroread windows version in wine (HowTo: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=27093&iTestingId=92286)
• remove /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins/EFS.api (this might have unknown consequences regarding your data and software functionality, especially related to internet connectivity)
• comment out the ipv6 line (::1) in /etc/hosts (this might impair your ipv6 connectivity and functionality of locally communicating programs)

This package *is not* out-of-date, it serves outdated software.

Some of the source-files are outdated or not available anymore:

  -> Downloading lib32-glib2-2.52.2+9+g3245eba16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading http://mirrors.aggregate.org/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64/lib32-glib2-2.52.2+9+g3245eba16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
    Aborting...

There's still another crashing issue. If we open the printing dialog and open properties in it TWICE (open - close - reopen), acroread will crash.

[SOLVED] 2020-08-06

Downgrading lib32-libcups to 2.2.10-1 solved this issue.

@ujihisa @Geballin If we revert lib32-gcc-libs to 9.3.0-1, opening preferences crash seems to be avoided.

Segfault in Spelling.api. Removing disables spellchecking but otherwise seems to affect no other features.

It crashes with: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"

@Tetrapyle facepalm no I didn't... I'm so utterly exhausted at the moment and not thinking straight.

I got the same segmentation fault you did

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xf2b7bf46 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libtdb.so.1

@j0hannes that looks like you have not enabled the multilib repository

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories#multilib

The package won't build because of its dependencies:

could not satisfy dependencies:
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-glu' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-mesa' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-libthai' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-fribidi' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-libxcomposite' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-libxcursor' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-libxrandr' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-libxi' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-libxinerama' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-cairo' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-libcanberra' required by acroread
unable to satisfy dependency 'lib32-at-spi2-atk' required by acroread

@Thorned_Rose did you type run? See Geballin's comment and mine below. I then got a segmentation fault from libtdb. Do you have?

My most recent installation of this is not running at all (when I've installed it previously, it's run fine).

GDB comes up with:

[...]
Reading symbols from /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread...
(No debugging symbols found in /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread)

and then sits there doing nothing more.