JasperReport creation with image fails to create temporary file on Windows Vista, 7 or Server 2008

We are getting the following error while generating a Jasper report when running our app on some machines with Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 2008:

java.lang.RuntimeException: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't create output stream! at br.com.oobj.relatorio.RRelatorioJasper.gerarJasperPrint(RRelatorioJasper.java:61) at br.com.oobj.relatorio.RRelatorioJasper.gerarJasperPrint(RRelatorioJasper.java:44) at br.com.oobj.cte.dacte.RGerarDacte.gerarJasperPrint(RGerarDacte.java:153) at br.com.oobj.cte.dacte.RGerarDacte.gerarJasperPrint(RGerarDacte.java:66) at br.com.oobj.me.impressao.GeradorDacte.gerarDAME(GeradorDacte.java:55) at br.com.oobj.me.impressao.GeradorDameDelegator.gerarDAME(GeradorDameDelegator.java:23) at br.com.oobj.me.impressao.ServicoImpressao.processar(ServicoImpressao.java:117) at br.com.oobj.me.impressao.ConsumidorImpressao.novaMensagem(ConsumidorImpressao.java:71) at br.com.oobj.util.fila.ConsumidorNotificante.run(ConsumidorNotificante.java:229) at br.com.oobj.me.impressao.ConsumidorImpressao.run(ConsumidorImpressao.java:47) Caused by: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't create output stream! at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRJdk14ImageEncoder.encode(JRJdk14ImageEncoder.java:90) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRAbstractImageEncoder.encode(JRAbstractImageEncoder.java:74) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRImageLoader.loadImageDataFromAWTImage(JRImageLoader.java:166) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRImageRenderer.getInstance(JRImageRenderer.java:207) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRImageRenderer.getInstance(JRImageRenderer.java:190) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillImage.evaluateImage(JRFillImage.java:901) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillImage.evaluate(JRFillImage.java:870) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElementContainer.evaluate(JRFillElementContainer.java:275) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillBand.evaluate(JRFillBand.java:426) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillBandNoOverflow(JRVerticalFiller.java:424) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillPageHeader(JRVerticalFiller.java:388) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReportStart(JRVerticalFiller.java:249) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReport(JRVerticalFiller.java:113) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:891) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.开发者_开发问答fill(JRBaseFiller.java:814) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.fillReport(JRFiller.java:89) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReport(JasperFillManager.java:601) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReport(JasperFillManager.java:517) at br.com.oobj.relatorio.RRelatorioJasper.gerarJasperPrint(RRelatorioJasper.java:58) ... 9 more Caused by: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't create output stream! at javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(Unknown Source) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRJdk14ImageEncoder.encode(JRJdk14ImageEncoder.java:86) ... 27 more Caused by: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't create cache file! at javax.imageio.ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(Unknown Source) ... 29 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method) at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(Unknown Source) at java.io.File.createTempFile(Unknown Source) at javax.imageio.stream.FileCacheImageOutputStream.(Unknown Source) at com.sun.imageio.spi.OutputStreamImageOutputStreamSpi.createOutputStreamInstance(Unknown Source) ... 30 more

The report references an external JPG image. The application runs as a windows service. I already tried to start the service with an administrator user, with no success.

In some machines, we solved the issue by relocating the image to a different drive other than C:

Will be very grateful with any help you can bring.

Thanks, Jonathas

It seems that Windows 2008 has different defaults for some system directives concerning services.

While running the application in user mode (i.e. running from within a windows user session), the problem does not verify.

Also, if we moved the file to a drive other than the drive on which windows is installed, the problem does not occur.

It's not exactly a solution (I didn't figure out exactly what system directive to change), but I belive this information could eventually help.