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i need to get into the home/user/.config/chromium/singletonlock —> and delete this file… how ?

i entered the command that a guy in youtube posted for opening a .rar file, terminal asked for a root password, it wasnt typing so i made a shut down and all went to hell
for my defence it is my first day ever with linux b(opensuse)

1.why did it happen ?

2.why cant i find singletonlock in the search ?

3.what host linux-eji4.site is ?

thank you all for advence !

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Hello and welcome here.

Please his is a forum of openSUSE users for openSUSE users. You should provide your fellow openSUSE users, who might be able to help you, with as much information as possible.
Basic things like: which version of openSUSE do you use, which desktp environment (none, KDE, Gnome, …), etc.

Also it is not sure if you want to go in that file (editing it?) or just delete it. It is also unclear why you want to do that.

Also you say you did several things, but we can only check what you did if you post here what you did. So when I e.g. want to check if I have such a file, I would do (and post)

henk@boven:~> ls -l .config/chromium/singletonlock
ls: cannot access .config/chromium/singletonlock: No such file or directory
henk@boven:~>

((Which btw shows I do not have that file).

The above is posted by copy/paste from the terminal in between CODE tags. You get the CODE tags by clicking on the # button in the tool bar of the post editor.

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First,
As hcvv described, details are important for anyone to help you. Sometimes painfully detailed details. If might be relevant, include it. And, imagine what someone might see looking over your shoulder, include it. If there is an error, then quote the error letter by letter.

A few basics:

  • If an error is described in a text console (window), you can copy and paste the text, or if you have enough foresight to anticipate needing to have a written record you can pipe the text into a file as follows:

The following statement will execute something and whatever is displayed is written to a file called foo.txt located wherever your cursor happens to be

./command.sh > foo.txt

So, for example command.sh is executed which generated some displayed content which can contain the error. If the error is repeatable, then you can use the above to write the entire displayed text to a textfile

  • Whenever you experience a problem, entries will often be written to the system log (syslog). Immediately after a problem occurs, you can often capture the error and a possible cause with the following which by default will display the last 10 entries
tail /var/log/messages

There are a number of other commands, but the two above should help in your current situation.

Now,
Your specific Q

  1. Why your situation happened is anyone’s guess. You didn’t describe your original problem, the exact steps you took to try to resolve the problem, the reference (eg uRL) of the guide you were following, the rationale behind what you were attempting to do.

  2. Don’t know why you would even be looking for a “singletonlock” much less why you found it didn’t exist (and that might be normal)

  3. Every machine on a computer network ordinarily should have what is called a Hostname and what you described is most likely a default name chosen when you first installed openSUSE (if you didn’t specify anything). More than likely it won’t affect any problems you may be experiencing.

TSU

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hello tsu2 when i type in the command:

i get the message :“cannot open '/var/log/messages for reading: Premission denied”

and for the information

i have:
GNOME Version 3.4.2
GNU GRUB version 2.00
openSUSE 12.2

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Dear stas4000,

There is no need at all to make funny and big fonts. We will try to understand you when you post in the default font. But many people will go elsewhere when you are shouting at them.

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Access to that paticular resource (typically anything that’s not in the /home/<username> tree) requires root permissions.

Most distros will typically recommend not openining a console with persistent root permissions, eg the following will ask for your root passowrd, then use the elevated permissions only for “yourcommand”

sudo *yourcommand*

Here on openSUSE, we’ve been generally less worried about about opening a console with persistent elevated root permissions. The following will ask for root permissions only once and you can type in as many commands as you wish which require elevated permissions as you want

su

When you don’t require root permissions any longer, return to your normal User permissions with the following (username is username)

su *username*

TSU

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BTW -
If you want a faster way to fix whatever your problem is,

You ought to describe your problem in words,
Then describe the precise steps leading up to
The Error.

Since you’re just posting an error and a request how to remove a file which might not exist at all in the first place, it’s problematic whether you’ll actually fix anything.

TSU