Hello SuSE people, This is a continuation of an earlier problem which I have partially solved. I had stupidly messed with my partition table amd ruined my 9.2 install. Finally reinstalled without formatting some partitions and was able to see, from the console as root, that all of my data was still there. Problem is I cannot get KDE to start as one user. (me) I can startx as root and KDE will come up. Following are various error messages I get when attempting to start KDE: From the cli in level 3 as a user issuing startx: .X.err permisssion denied. From the KDM login screen: EasyStreet kdm [5810]: Xserver for display :0 terminated unexpectedly. Directly after logon by user a screen with messages: Could not read network connection list /home/bob/.DCOPserver_EasyStreet_0 Please check that the "dcopserver" is running. No write access to $HOME (/home/bob) And in a little grey box at the top of the screen, the following : Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation. Fooled around checking various things, did another "repair system", which showed nothing wrong. I am unable to figure out what is wrong. Added a new user and it came up fine and worked OK. Uninstalled myself and the reinstalled myself as a user and it did not. Same problem.Will somebody give me some guidance/assistance please? Bob S. Please ??? PS Ken, I tried your suggestion but when I replaced the /home/bob directory the problem returned.