KDE won't start automatically

[Sunny Dubey <dubeys@bxscience.edu>]

Hi,

Today, while I was in my cave starting the village fire, I decided to update 
my unstable rock tablet to the lastest and the greatest from Ivan.  
Everything seemed fine, however when I login, KDE doesn't start 
automatically.  I use XDM, and so at first I thought it was an issue with 
XDM,  however, I tried startx at the console, and X started for a few 
seconds, it died right afterwards.  I could however do xinit and then issue a 
startkde manually.  (but that sucks a whole lot).  My .xsession file has a 
simple startkde and nothing else in it.  Any other caveman have this issue?

Caveman Sunny

PS:  ok, so I'm not very funny, but I tried =)