I recently upgraded to KDE 3.4. After I rebooted my machine, I get the message "unable to start kstartupconfig. Check your installation.". I am running SuSE 9.2.
Any ideas how to fix this? If you are suggesting a reinstall, please let me know how I can do this from safe mode.

Another question, any idea when 9.3 will be available for FTP install?

I had the same problem after installing KDE 3.4 on SuSE 9.1. I solved the problem by choosing another session type from the "Menu" (WindowMaker, I think.) It also failed, but I was able to choose an "alternate window manager" or something like that. I did so and was able to get a shell. (You may be able to get a shell by choosing Fail Safe---I didn't get to that point.) I noticed that I had some ownership problems in my home directory. I guess some of the users/groups got screwed up during the upgrade. Anyway, I used: chmod -R hhlost:users /home/hhlost and all was fixed.

Luck,
hhlost

this thread has continued in antoher thread, and which has some replies that followed the one on here by hhlost, and then I have replied with my experiences.

this thread is continued here:
(since linux questions won't let me type urls yet, I've included the thread number)
2075712

As someone pointed out in the thread mentioned in the post above, it should be

chown -R username:users /home/username

not chmod

Any help with pcLos? The chown command does not work.

Regards.

The home directory is made with pam
/etc/pam.d

edit common-session
add session required pam_mkhomedir.so umask=0022 skel=/etc/skel

the error should be resolved

chown -R <username> /home/<username> should work