On 13 Jun 2003, Frank Mandato wrote:

>   Funny thing happened. I logged out and logged back in, run level 3. At
> the prompt I typed "startkde" and here are the error messages that
> resulted:
>
>    xsetroot: unable to open display ''
>    xrdb: Can't open display"
>    xset: unable to open display""
>    startkde: Starting up...
>    ksplash: cannot connect to X server

This is normal.

startkde is an X client. It needs an X server to connect to.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/