newbie: KDE runs fine as root, but not user: what's wrong?

[Scott Alan Burch]

Thanks for the suggestion. But I made the change and KDE still boots and 
then KCMInit crashes. Launching KDE from root runs great. I'm stumped. Any 
suggestions?   thanks  ##  scott

At 08:43 AM 5/2/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 07:15:29 -0700
>From: Shawn Dunn <sfalken@citlink.net>
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>Subject: Re: newbie: KDE runs fine as root, but not user: what's wrong?
>Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> > I created an /.xinitrc file in my home directory containing "startkde" [no
> > quotes in file] as the only command. Using startx will launch X, and KDE
> > tries to boot, but KCMInit crashes, then Panel and then others. I
> > invariably have to kill it with control-option-delete.
>
>         Change the line "startkde"  to "exec startkde"
>
>         That should fix it
>
>                         --Shawn