acroread and xpdf problems

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Thu Jan 15 14:23:12 PST 2004


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?
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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