I've come across this on RH9 as well Frank so you're not alone. 

Carl P. 

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:45, Frank Mandato wrote:
>   My X86 problem is a little different, when I want to use KDE and
> select it using RH's desktop switcher, my system totally goes nuts.
> 
>   Here it is: RH 9, installed both Gnome and KDE. When I switch to KDE
> the X server refuses to start, the error message that I get says that
> the X server may still be running.
> 
>   I su to root, start up the X server --- no problem, Gnome comes up
> nicely. I then go into my ~/home/user directory, delete 2 Xclients files
> and, voila, when I log back in as the regular user, Gnome starts up ok.
> 
>   I installed all but 2 KDE packages on install, the ones I did not
> install had to do with network switching.
> 
>   Any ideas what may be wrong? KDE? Probably something that I
> overlooked.
> 
>   Thanks
> 
>   FrankM
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:29, Phil Mattison wrote:
> > Here's a handy thing: just replace your .xinitrc with the following, and
> > then you can type "startx KDE" or "startx gnome" whichever you feel like
> > using.
> >snip
> 
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