Locked up in boot process.

[Steven Vollom]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 11:02:26 pm John DeCarlo wrote:
> f you save the changes while you are in kate, they are saved to the hard
> drive and will be there when you next boot.
Trim

Dear John,

I don't believe the process completed.  I clicked on save in Kate and the 
whole process is as follows:

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ kdesudo mkdir /media/disk/boot
ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ kdesudo mount /dev/sdb2 /media/disk/boot
ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ kdesudo kate /media/disk/boot/grub/menu.lst
kate(14541) KToolInvocation::klauncher: klauncher not running... launching 
kdeinit                                                                              
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher                   
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4                                    
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4                            
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(14562) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in 
"/usr/share/applications/kde/k3b.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard 
(missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(14562) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in 
"/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-startcenter.desktop" is not compliant 
with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(14562) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in 
"/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-startcenter.desktop" is not compliant 
with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(14562) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in 
"/usr/share/applications/speedcrunch.desktop" is not compliant with XDG 
standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update
kded(14558): Communication problem with  "kded" , it probably crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive 
areply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, 
the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, 
or the network connection was broken." "

kded(14559): "Error launching kconf_update. Either KLauncher is not running 
anymore, or it failed to start the application."

kded(14559) KDEDModule::setModuleName: registerObject() successful for  
"kdedglobalaccel"
kded(14559) KDEDModule::setModuleName: registerObject() successful for  
"khotkeys"
kded(14559) KDEDModule::setModuleName: registerObject() returned false for  
"khotkeys"
"KConfigIni: In file /tmp/kde-root/kconf_updateC14566.tmp, line 1: " Invalid 
entry (missing '=')
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/knotify4

It looks like I was not successful; what do I do now?

Thanks!

Steven