Hang during widow manager startup

[Guy Sample]

I hope some one can help me with this problem.
First a little background, I have YDL 2.3 installed on a PowerMac 7200/90.
80 MB Ram
520 MB harddrive with MacOS 9.1
4.3 GB harddrive with YDL and 1 GB hfs partition

I'm trying YDL because I also have an iMac I am thinking about 
installing it on, but I wanted to try and learn a little about it first 
on a machinr that isn't so critical.

When I first installed YDL i set it up for the text login. I imediately 
used apt to get all the latest updated files.

For some reason I am unable to run Gnome or KDE (KDE will only run as 
root Gnome doesn't work at all). They both go through the startup 
process and then right at the very end they hang and I have to force a 
resart. (Control+Apple+Power)

At first I thought it was just because the machine was slow, but I let 
it sit overnight to find the same state in the morning.

I've tryed a few things that I thought might work to no avail. At this 
point I'm open to any suggestions. I could be happy running KDE as root, 
but I didn't think that would be a very good idea.