xfprint4 "Unable to Print To Temporary File" When Printing

[John Altstatt]

Mark Kane wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm trying to get a printer working on a machine that's running Xfce and
> FreeBSD. I've got CUPS and all that going, but throughout the course of
> trying to get that printing properly, xfprint4 started giving two errors.
>
> I was working on getting printing working last night, and at first I was
> having some problems with CUPS and getting it to print properly. I
> continued to troubleshoot that, but without changing anything on the
> machine, xfprint4 started giving me the following two errors whenever
> trying to print:
>
> - Unable to Print To Temporary File
> - An Error Occurred
>
> I almost got the CUPS end figured out I think, but I can no longer print
> this way to test. So my questions are:
>
> 1) What file is it trying to output to? I have ample free space on all
> partitions so I'm not sure why it couldn't write.
>
> 2) Any way to get a more descriptive error message?
>
> 3) What would cause this and how would it be fixed?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Mark
> Xfce 4.2.3
> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE
>
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Perhaps you should be check the permissions of /var/spool/cups .  Mine 
looks like rwx--x--- 3 root sys.
(on FC3, not FreeBSD, however).

-John Altstatt