Reinstalling corrupted installation of SuSe 9.1

[pksa]

I need to "reinstall" my Llinux because I can not boot (there is no root devide). I neither have backup nor rescue floopies.
Does the normal installation inherit configuration of existing installation?

[sadohert]

I'm curious about this too. I want to make sure my HOME directories stick around during he reinstall. I'm working with Mandrake 10.1 and my installation seems ROYALLY buggered.

[budman7]

pksa, no, a new installation does not inherit any configuration problems.
As long as you don't let it upgrade.
If you let it upgrade, the problem may or may not be solved.

sadohert, if you reinstall, use custom partitioning.
Don't format /home, click on it and mount it as /home and leave files as is.

This assumes you have a /home separate partition.
If not, HOME directories will be gone. You could try upgrading.

[a thing]

You could try using KNOPPIX or System Rescue CD to backup the files on /home then reinstall with a seperate /home partition and load your backed-up files to /home.

[sadohert]

Thanks for the tips. I tried a regular install without letting it format the /home directory and for the most part things seem okay. My only problem is klauncher (or konqueror, not sure what the actual root program is) won't start up now. This klauncher issue is impacting all kinds of things.

Any idea what could have gone wrong? Could there be a corrupt config file sitting in "/home" somewhere that is locking konqueror/klauncher up?

TIA

[sadohert]

I also can't get the k terminal going either.

[budman7]

klauncher, what happens when you try to start konqueror?

what is k terminal?

[sadohert]

At first when I tried to start konqueror from the task bar panel a entry in the task bar appeared saying something like "Starting Konqueror", that would last about 10 seconds, and then disappear with no Konqueror window. When I try to open my "Home" icon off the desktop a similar thing happened. Now all I get is a dialog titled "Sorry KDesktop" saying:

"KLauncher could not be reached via DCOP".

When I said K Terminal I was referring to the default terminal/container thingy that has a button on the taskbar.... you know, the program that allows you to have a bunch of terminals all tabbed within one window... sorry if I've got the wrong name there... don't remember what made me think it was called the K Terminal (probably because the odds of a program starting with the letter K in KDE is high ).

Thanks again.

Stu

[sadohert]

Okay, so by accident I realized I can start konqueror from the root (the klauncher issues were fixed by a reboot). So, would it maybe be that ther'es a corrupted or incorrect konqueror profile type file in my home directory? Where would this be? I can't seem to find one.

Thanks

Stu

[budman7]

What happens if you type

konqueror

Any errors/output?

into a shell/console, I believe this is what you were calling the k terminal.