From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 05:36:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03298106566B for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 05:36:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfarmer@predatorlabs.net) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8B68FC08 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 05:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj9 with SMTP id 9so7374070qwj.13 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:36:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=predatorlabs.net; s=google; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cwg2sjIGHQ6XkKYEIbbmEZFe4Ez8pZfCmo16abBEtN8=; b=c0dVpnp87wXvHZ3xQpTcAbCj0/y3YOBEDs8kUIUW2mTltAdqPqPWXXBNKMxBhKBcZB W6IgWNPc/N8/6FGVXQD7Graz5hpsBGIHYC0gm/VSuUiuQ/0gL+yYm+5ONojCr3S0/sG1 dRsTsP9PV9nxtvps2qFMuGPXKm2s0QAmopr64= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=predatorlabs.net; s=google; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=HeFNqg4AZkPFoPPNB03gRq8ok7a6aaYIgasRdJAc285WDt7UJmVgZSBj9iuvWQ8xrw sklTlDRvlJoet1MkTGbb67bgBWDaO15h9qrgubx3kp76Zu7EPaBOZLYg/pE/u+jnNBe/ FJMsRdxhV9zV9OnAWVE/dhmeEApdgd7YD2AG8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.98.135 with SMTP id q7mr7885525qcn.270.1296624959621; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:35:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.198.138 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:35:59 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [128.95.133.118] In-Reply-To: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:35:59 -0800 Message-ID: From: Rob Farmer To: Rem P Roberti Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:36:01 -0000 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Roberti 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