kstartupconfig ?

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 09 November 2008 20:17:23 Jerry Houston wrote:
> I removed a local user account on my wife's openSuSE 11.0/KDE 4.1.3
> workstation, because it was apparently blocking access to the NIS account
> by the same name.
>
> Now the logon screen displays both of our NIS user names, but when the
> password has been typed, pauses for a few seconds, then displays a message
> saying something like, "Unable to start kstartupconfig.  Check your setup."
>
> I haven't been able to find anything about kstartupconfig anywhere in YaST.
> Where should I look in order to "check my setup"?  What writes to that
> configuration, and what should I do to fix whatever's wrong?
>
> I tried recreating her local user account, so she could use her computer
> until I figure out the domain issue, but was told that there was a conflict
> with an NIS account with the same name.  D'uh!  Obviously, that conflict is
> what I was trying to resolve by removing the local account in the first
> place.
>
> Thanks in advance for a clue - she *really* wants to use her computer
> again.

Funnily enough, I met exactly this error message yesterday.  All I needed to 
do was to boot into single user mode, then chown -R username:groupname 
/home/username for the remaining users.

HTH

Anne
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