Richard Harke wrote: > I have one new observation: when it fails to start Kde it reports > that it cannot connect to :0 > But when I start it as root and get twm, when I shut it down, > it reports the display as :0.0
That makes me think that the problem is file permissions on /tmp/.X11-UNIX. It should look like this. ls -ld /tmp/.X11-unix drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 30 18:42 /tmp/.X11-unix/ But if that is restricted then only root will be able to contact the server. Bob
