KDE crashes for 1 user but not the others?

[Michael L. Squires]

> A few days ago KDE under root account wouldn't start (startx).  Howevere 
> KDE started under a regular user account works perfectly (and continues 
> to do so).
> 
> Furthermore, Gnome (2.4) under root starts (half-way?) up to the point 
> of the banner and then hangs.
> 
> Here is the error message produced by the KDE crash:

I had a similar problem and wound moving my home directory somewhere else
and then recreating the account from scratch (and removing directories
from /tmp).  After getting KDE to work I then copied everything over to
my original home directory, and moved it back.

Mike Squires