Ron wrote:

> I have been using Mandriva 2006 and on installing it, added three users
> using separate names. It worked well.
> I have upgraded to Mandriva 2007 when installing it I added the
> same
> three users I did not nominate a preferred user. When I booted it up, I
> can open the desktop using the first named user, but When I try to change
> users, this message came up, "Could not kstartupconfig.Check your
> installation". I did that, but it did not solve the problem.
> It was suggested I reboot and open the desktop with another
> user,
> but that did not work either, the same message reappeared. Could anyone
> solve my problem of not being able to open the desktop with either one of
> the other users? Please demonstrate, if possible, the way it should be
> achieved.
>
> I would like to thank the person who answered my first question.

What you may try is to login with the working user, open a terminal window
and su to root.

Do an ls -la /home

Do all three of your users have a Directory? Are the group and owner the
same as the directory?

Ron wrote:

> I have been using Mandriva 2006 and on installing it, added three users
> using separate names. It worked well.
> I have upgraded to Mandriva 2007 when installing it I added the
> same
> three users I did not nominate a preferred user. When I booted it up, I

You _upgraded_. So the 3 users have already been there or did you
reformat /home even though just upgrading?

> can open the desktop using the first named user, but When I try to change
> users, this message came up, "Could not kstartupconfig.Check your
> installation". I did that, but it did not solve the problem.

Something is flawed. Either you have updated and the users are already
there, but you formatted their $HOMEs, or the reverse: you reformatted /
with /etc/passwd in it, recreated the users in another order assigning them
partially different UIDs, and then ended up (when _not_ also
reformatting /home) with wrong UIDs for your existing homedirs.

In the latter case, you can fix it this way:
You may become root in a console window/konsole through su, then
- cd /home
- ls -ld *
- look for numbers in the owner field
- change ownership recursively with "chown -R $USER:$USER" where $USER
matches the name of the dir ($USERs $HOME).
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Ron wrote:

> I have been using Mandriva 2006 and on installing it, added three users
> using separate names. It worked well.
> I have upgraded to Mandriva 2007 when installing it I added the
> same
> three users I did not nominate a preferred user. When I booted it up, I
> can open the desktop using the first named user, but When I try to change
> users, this message came up, "Could not kstartupconfig.Check your
> installation". I did that, but it did not solve the problem.
> It was suggested I reboot and open the desktop with another
> user,
> but that did not work either, the same message reappeared. Could anyone
> solve my problem of not being able to open the desktop with either one of
> the other users? Please demonstrate, if possible, the way it should be
> achieved.
>
> I would like to thank the person who answered my first question.

Probably the Autologin mode is set for this user.
To switch this off got to: MCC->Boot->Configuring the login mode,
and check "No, i do not want autologin.

Regards,
Luc

> Ron wrote:
>
>> I have been using Mandriva 2006 and on installing it, added three users
>> using separate names. It worked well.
>> I have upgraded to Mandriva 2007 when installing it I added the
>> same
>> three users I did not nominate a preferred user. When I booted it up, I
>> can open the desktop using the first named user, but When I try to change
>> users, this message came up, "Could not kstartupconfig.Check your
>> installation". I did that, but it did not solve the problem.
>> It was suggested I reboot and open the desktop with another
>> user,
>> but that did not work either, the same message reappeared. Could anyone
>> solve my problem of not being able to open the desktop with either one of
>> the other users? Please demonstrate, if possible, the way it should be
>> achieved.
>>

When I switch users, it starts another GUI console on F8, and starts it
with the login screen. Did that happen on your system, or did the
message come up in the existing KDE session?

Donald