On 2005-10-18 at 17:02:38 -0400, Michael A. Elkevizth wrote (shortened):
I've installed openSuse 10.0 and am having some trouble getting everything setup properly. I was running Suse 9.3 Pro and had it setup to share my Firefox profile located on a vfat partition so I can use the same profile on winXP and on Linux. All work well in 9.3, but with 10.0 I keep getting an error from Firefox (and Thunderbird also) stating that "Firefox cannot use the profile "default" because it is in use. Please choose another profile or create a new one". This error appears to be being caused because Firefox cannot gain access to the profile properly. The same error will occur if you point the profile to somewhere you don't have permissions for. The problem is that I DO have permissions to the share and I cannot figure out why this is happening. I have tested my setup with Ubuntu 5.10 and all works properly with that. Here is the fstab line that mounts the share:
Which version of Firefox do you have on Ubuntu? Could you please try a mozilla.org build of Firefox 1.0.7 on your 10.0? If you are on it, it would also be interesting what you get with a 1.5b2 build from mozilla.org. Regards, Wolfgang Rosenauer -- SUSE - A Novell business -o) Tel: +49-(0)911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstr. 5 /\\ Fax: +49-(0)911-740 53 489 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v