From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 06:16:40 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 51747106564A for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:16:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from armin@frozen-zone.org) Received: from mailbackup.inode.at (mailbackup.inode.at [213.229.60.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B1648FC15 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.99.145.2] (port=9920 helo=mx.inode.at) by mailbackup.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PkVif-0001hY-Ht for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:57:33 +0100 Received: from [84.119.22.236] (port=9037 helo=fz-sub1.local) by smartmx-02.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PkVic-0000Mx-4m; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:57:30 +0100 Message-ID: <4D48F247.4000007@frozen-zone.org> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:57:27 +0100 From: Armin Pirkovitsch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101212 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rem P Roberti References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 06:16:40 -0000 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 >> 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" >