Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:36:14 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: jonc@chen.org.nz, m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Solved: Re: acroread and xpdf problems Message-ID: <200401152136.14090.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20040115222824.GA92339@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <200401151539.08194.algould@datawok.com> <200401151625.35774.algould@datawok.com> <20040115222824.GA92339@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:28 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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. Thanks for all of the help. The problem was with permissions of /compat/ linux/var/. Acroread is run under Linux emulations. Thanks again, Andrew Gould
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