Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:47:11 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user Message-ID: <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinU-3eGdz%2BibOyg8d8LgimHUqWMuam6hnmyhoLp@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> <AANLkTinU-3eGdz%2BibOyg8d8LgimHUqWMuam6hnmyhoLp@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Roberti<remegius@comcast.net> wrote: >> I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the >> first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can >> now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message: >> >> opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use >> /root/.opera/ >> >> Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this, as the above message is a >> mystery to me. >> > Most likely, it is trying to use /root/.opera for your profile and is > crashing early in the startup because the regular user can't write > there. I would save any bookmarks or other useful items and then > delete the folder. I haven't run into this in FreeBSD but you can get > similar problems in Windows if a global profile is created in > C:\Program Files\Opera by an administrator. > That's interesting. The problem is that there is no /root/.opera folder. As a matter of fact there doesn't seem to be any folders at all that refer to the linux-opera browser, in my /home/user directory, or anywhere else. So I have no idea where the program is storing the profile info. Rem
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