From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 14:28:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D6616A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4455C43D6A for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:28:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9D1A013620; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:28:24 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:28:24 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Andrew L. Gould" Message-ID: <20040115222824.GA92339@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <200401151539.08194.algould@datawok.com> <200401151615.35683.algould@datawok.com> <20040115222310.GB92221@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <200401151625.35774.algould@datawok.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401151625.35774.algould@datawok.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acroread and xpdf problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:28:28 -0000 On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > > > If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a normal user, I get the > > > > > following message: > > > > > > > > > > "There was an error opening this document. A temporary file could not > > > > > be opened." > > > > > > > > > > If I run acroread or xpdf as root, I can open the files fine. > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > Check the permissions on /tmp -- should be mode 1777. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Matthew > > > > > > The permissions for /tmp are 1777 owned by root:wheel. > > > > What about /var/tmp? > > The same: 1777 owned by root:wheel. Hmm, about the only other thing I can think of is check whether there's enough disk-space available on the filesystems of both the directories /tmp and /var/tmp. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.