Hi,

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:

/dev/sda3    /windows/e    vfat    users,gid=winshare,umask=0002    0    0

My user is a member of the group winshare. I can use Konqueror to enter the
directory and write new files to it. I have tried the same setup running as
root and get the same error. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, I
don't know if this has anything to do with the problem, but it might. In
kdm, if I choose to restart in a selected mode (a kernel or OS other than
the default), it doesn't work, but it always did work properly in 9.3.
(maybe another permissions problem?)

Thank You,

Mike

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