SUSE :: 10.2 Won't Startup - Error Message "Could Not Start Kstartupconfig. Check Your Installation"
Mar 16, 2010
I foolishly changed the mount point of a partition on a HDD which Linux was not in fact using, and now when I try to start up I get a message box stating:- Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation.
How do I recover the situation. I do not have an up to date recovery disc. I do have a full bootup disc of Suse 11.2 - could I use the opportunity to update without losing all my personal files, or should I use the old 10.2 disks? The first essential is to get something back up and working.
no problems until yesterday it won't let me logon.i get "could not start kstartupconfig - check your inst" i have neither downloaded nor installed anything recently nor have i knowingly made any changes i can logon as root it was suggested that i create a new user which i did and i can logon with this new identity it was suggested that i tried repair in mepis user assistant but my original logon name does not appear in the user list however when i tried to create a user identity using that name, i was told i couldn't as it already existed.
I'm trying to get OpenSuse 11.2 to dual boot with windows 7. I have "/home" on a separate partition formated in NTFS so that I can share it with windows 7. However when i try to boot OpenSuse, I can't seem to login. It comes up with "kstartupconfig error 3". I can only login to my account through consol login. I can login graphically as root though. I'm thinking it's something to with NTFS and permissions as when I view the permissions of my home folder it comes up as owner=root & group=user, I cant seem to change the owner back to me though I can't change any of the permission settings for that. The reason I think it NTFS causing the trouble is because the root directory is on an ext4 partition and root logs in fine.
Also I cant seem to boot Windows 7 either even though it shows up on the grub menu. so i cant check the partition from there either. but thats not my main concern I want to at least get OpenSuse working properly then I work on getting win7 to boot.
I had to register with a new username, because I could not remember my logon details and have since changed ISP so could not get details sent, anyway that aside to the problem.
I upgraded to 11.04 and all went well (hence posting here and not in the Upgrade section) and it is running fine, well until yesterday.
I ran the update manager as I usually do when first entering Ubuntu and it did an update but then gave me an error message about file permissions and to check my connection (which was connected OK).It has also affected the Software Installer, and now I can not install any new software.
Is this a generic problem with the latest update or is it just my Dell Inspiron 1545 please?
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I have a single harddisk partitioned with Ubuntu Maverick and Windows 7 installations. I installed Windows first and then Ubuntu, after resizing partitions and adding a new one for Ubuntu. Win7 did not appear in the Grub2 boot menu. I added it (sda3), but on rebooting, I get the message "BOOTMGR is missing/Press Ctrl+Alt_Del to restart".
I understand that Win7 might have put its boot manager in another partition, and sda1 had FAT. I added sda1 as another grub2 entry, but when I try that, I get the error message "Windows Boot Manager/ Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause... Status 0xc0000225/ Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible." Attached are fdisk and parted outputs; and the grub2 files I created. How do I get Windows 7 to boot up?
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After making all of the changes to vsftpd.conf, if I execute the following commands, here is the result:
my iwlist scan is normal. ethernet connection ok, wirless not working but does seem to receive. wifi radar lists my router ssid. Does this say I have the correct router for my wireless is my question? I am also getting this error message with this system on KDE, LENNY. From KWLAN a wpasupplicant front end.
"you do not have permissions to start pppd or pppd was not found. Dial up networking will not work."
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Realised the init script needed to have the LBS stuff at the start, so put that in, and used insserv to add the script. I used required-start set to $ALl.This successfully created the init script with S20, and i eneabled it with chkconfig.
KDE update a number of components in tonights update. When I have gotten this error the past I could simply delete the .kde folder in my home directory and KDE would rebuild one and start. Doesn't work this time.Am I missing something or has something failed to download and install properly
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This is the first time I've closed out KDE in over a week, so I guess its possible that anything I've done over that time may have somehow broken it. I hadn't noticed any problems til now. The only reason I did it this time was because I'd changed the KDE plasma theme and I wanted to watch the new one boot up. I'm typing on the same computer and the same Slackware installation right now, just running E instead of KDE.
I've recently installed Fedora 10 on a space computer. It works fine until I tried to install Mplayer.
As i've read on a number of sites that there is a dependency problem, I went through loads of websites looking for a fix. I found nothing that would work.
Now i'm stuck with a problem that i think might be worse. If I start a .RPM I get the following message.
Now when i try to install other things it's hit and miss, I tried to install VLC and got the same message.
I've got no idea what i've done to get to this point and i don't really want to reinstall fedora 10 again.
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Could not start the X server (your graphical environment)due to some internal error. contact your system administrator or check your syslog to diagnose. In the meantime this display will be disabled. Please restart GDM when the problem is corrected.
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