Update: Now, on second reboot, attempting to login as the second user gives the same message "could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation" John On 10/31/06, John Ryan <jvryan@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, I am after installing OpenSuse 10.1 on my Toshiba Tecra S1 laptop. I have installed it on two partitions: / mounts on /dev/hda6 (formatted as ext3) /home mounts on /dev/hda5 (formatted as ext3, encrypted). I am using KDE.

As it boots, I must provide the password for the /home partition. I created a normal user, copied some files etc. and shutdown normally. When I rebooted, and login as that user, if I give the wrong password it reports "login failed", and if I give the correct password it reports "could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation", and after I press "Okay", I am brought back to the login screen. I can login as root. I see that the home directory for that normal user is not present, and lost+found is empty. I note that on doing df it reports on the filesystem udev. This is the second time that this has occurred – last time I simply reinstalled. I could not recover the data, but I had backups.

I have created another user, rebooted, and evreything went OK. But I am very nervous that the same thing will occur again. Is the problem something to do with the filesystem being encrypted? Any ideas?

John