Fail to start KDE on init 3

[Stephen Liu]

Hi folks,

I can't start KDE on "init 3"


# startkde
xsetroot:unable to open display
xset: unable to open display
startkde: starting
ksplash: cannot connect to Xserver
kdeinit: aborting.  $DISPLAY is not set
warning: connect ( ) failed: : no such file or directory
ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
ERROR: couldn't attach to DCOP server !
startkde: shutting down
warning: connect ( ) failed :No such file or directory
ERROR: can't contact kdeinit !
startkde: running shutdown scripts
startkde: done
* * * END * * *


Please advise how to fix this problem

TIA

B.R.
SL
satimis