Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Tejas Guruswamy <masterpatricko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/02/10 10:32, C wrote:
> Hmmmm well, I've just encountered my first major fail with KDE4.4 on
> openSUSE 11.2 (on a computer I support).
>
> This is on a laptop install.  It was working fine last night, but on
> startup this morning, the system boots, and when it gets to launching
> the desktop, all I see is a small box in the upper left which says:
>
>      kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. The error code is 4.
> Check your installation.
>
> I've just picked up the laptop from the owner, and am starting to try
> to diagnose this... strange... I've done some Googling on this.. only
> one exact hit from a German language forum.  There they traced it back
> to a kernel update.  I don't know if there was an interrupted of
> failed auto-update when the laptop was in use yesterday.
>
> Any ideas on this one?
>   
I had never heard of kstartupconfig4 before, but a quick browse through
KDE's websvn gives me this:

"This utility helps to have some configuration options available in startkde
without the need to launch anything linked to KDE libraries (which may
need some time to load). "

in particular the following operation seems to be the cause of your
specific failure:

QFile f1( KStandardDirs::locateLocal( "config", "startupconfig" ));
if( !f1.open( QIODevice::WriteOnly ))
return 4;

So for some reason /home/user/.kde4/share/config/startupconfig file is
corrupted/unreadable.

I'm not sure how to recreate it, maybe just delete it?
Mine appears to be a shell script exporting the various preloaded
configuration options.

Regrds,
Tejas
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx