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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