How to diagnose FOP to print PDF in apex?

I have configured the fop in linux.
I follow the steps outlined in http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/configure_printing.html
When I configure apex to print a pdf and click the link. Apex calls the FOP and I see from the logs on the linux server it successfully connects ..
08/10/29 11:13:15 [INFO] Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer
But apex displays "The page cannot be displayed" page http://10.104.32.8:7777/pls/vasrpt/f?p=101:1:6790012890857926:FLOW_XMLP_OUTPUT_R1033505788417238_en-us
Any ideas about how to debug this?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
David

Just checked the server.log
08/10/29 11:33:50.737 10.1.3.4.0 Stopped (JVM termination)
08/10/29 11:37:28.19 10.1.3.4.0 Started
08/10/29 11:37:33.730 10.1.3.4.0 Started
So at least I know that the error is somewhere else.
So for some reason apex is talking to oc4j (FOP), but it appears that the result data set is not being returned successfully.

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