Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:35:59 -0800 From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user Message-ID: <AANLkTinU-3eGdz%2BibOyg8d8LgimHUqWMuam6hnmyhoLp@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net>
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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. =A0At 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 i= s 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. --=20 Rob Farmer
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