Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AANLkTinU-3eGdz%2BibOyg8d8LgimHUqWMuam6hnmyhoLp>