Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:14:40 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Armin Pirkovitsch <armin@frozen-zone.org> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user Message-ID: <4D48F650.3060205@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4D48F247.4000007@frozen-zone.org> References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> <AANLkTinU-3eGdz%2BibOyg8d8LgimHUqWMuam6hnmyhoLp@mail.gmail.com> <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> <4D48F247.4000007@frozen-zone.org>
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> Could you post your environment variables? > > btw. how do you login / start x? (eg login in the console and use > startx, or using any login manager like xdm, kdm, gdm, slim...) > > Armin > >> >>> 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 I log in directly from the console using 'startx'. And I hate to sound really ignorant, but I'm still pretty much a newbie and not sure where the environment variables are found. Rem
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