kstartupconfig4 error code 3 and KDE4 does not start.

[jimbrook]

I cannot run my new install with kde. I'm on dual boot winxp system with /home on a shared "data" ntfs partition. -- jim

[devils casper]

Using NTFS filesystem for /home is not a good idea. You should stick with Linux filesystem and create separate NTFS partition for data sharing between both OSes.

Is it a fresh installation?

[gogalthorp]

NTFS do not use the same permissions as a real Linux/Unix system. You can share data but you cannot share /home. You can mount a NTFS in the /home/username directory but then it will be fully available only to that username.

[jimbrook]

Yes, this is a new installation. I am replacing, not updating, 11.2.

Relative to the NTFS, WinXP is on a separate NTFS partition. I created a separate data partition with NTFS because windows doesn't natively mount and read ext3,4.

When installing 11.3, I specified /home as the NTFS "data partition." Note - I cannot find "/local." Where should it have been set-up?

The problem is local to KDE because I can switch to the other window environment (X something?) and SuSE runs.

[devils casper]

We have to check partition structure of your Hard disk first.
Boot up from LiveCD of any Linux distro or Suse and execute this in Terminal

su -
/sbin/fdisk -l

Post output here.
* Its small L in fdisk -l.