Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:57:27 +0100 From: Armin Pirkovitsch <armin@frozen-zone.org> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user Message-ID: <4D48F247.4000007@frozen-zone.org> In-Reply-To: <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> <AANLkTinU-3eGdz%2BibOyg8d8LgimHUqWMuam6hnmyhoLp@mail.gmail.com> <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net>
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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 02/02/11 06:47, Rem P Roberti wrote: > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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