Adobe Reader 9.4.2 SIGSEGV in command-line PDF- PS conversion

Question

NOTE: This issue was originally reported Oct. 5, 2010, against Reader 9.4.0:  http://forums.adobe.com/message/3186827
The following should emit PostScript on stdout:
     acroread -toPostScript < PDF_FILE
Try doing this with Adobe Reader 9.4.2, and all you'll see is
     Segmentation fault
Adobe Reader 9.3.4 works just fine doing such PDF->PostScript conversions. 
John

Answer 1

Forgot to mention: this is occurs on both 32-bit and 64-bit RHEL5 Linux hosts at our site.
Tail end of an strace for this issue:
24100 munmap(0xf702f000, 4096)          = 0
24100 stat64("/u/j/o/john/.adobe", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=2048, ...}) = 0
24100 stat64("/u/j/o/john/.adobe/Acrobat", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=2048, ...}) = 0
24100 stat64("/u/j/o/john/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=2048, ...}) = 0
24100 stat64("/u/j/o/john/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0/Temp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=2048, ...}) = 0
24100 open("/u/j/o/john/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0/Temp/AdobeTempPShUseaq", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 4
24100 close(4)                          = 0
24100 unlink("/u/j/o/john/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0/Temp/AdobeTempPShUseaq") = 0
24100 open("/u/j/o/john/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0/Temp/AdobeTempPShUseaq", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 4
24100 getcwd("/tmp/acrotest"..., 1024)  = 14
24100 open("/u/j/o/john/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0/Temp/AdobeTempPShUseaq", O_RDONLY) = 5
24100 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
24100 +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
John