Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:28:24 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acroread and xpdf problems Message-ID: <20040115222824.GA92339@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200401151625.35774.algould@datawok.com> References: <200401151539.08194.algould@datawok.com> <200401151615.35683.algould@datawok.com> <20040115222310.GB92221@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <200401151625.35774.algould@datawok.com>
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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 <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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