KDE 4.1 won't start

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Eric wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand. I booted up in text mode and I issued the
> command kdm. I got no response. No error message. Nothing changed in any
> way visibly. Is that the way you were suggesting I issue this command?

You probably had an instance of KDM already running.   Make sure kdm isn't 
running before issuing the command.