Hang during window manager startup

[G. W. Sample]

I've try logging through both the text and the graphical login screen as
well as starting kdm and gdm from the shell as root. If I try to run kdm or
gdm as anything other than root linux complains that they like to be run as
root.

Thanks for the suugestion

> Guy, try entering     kdm    from root.
> 
> This open some kind of graphical login that lets you toggle between KDE
> and Gnome, as a user.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 19:30, Guy Sample wrote:
>> 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.