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

[Sam Moore]

You might have a permissions issue on the X binaries. See if this helps:
http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/69.html


At 2:09 PM -0500 5/2/02, Scott Alan Burch wrote:
>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
>
>
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