Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <stark@xxxxxxx>]

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

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