KDE 3.1 fails to start

[Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk>]

 Hi folks,

KDE-3.1
GNOME-2.4

KDE failed to login/start with following warnings
"view details (~/.xssession-errors file)"

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running : sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u 
/var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gm/ : 0 .xservers "-h "" -l : 0 satimis
+ wm=kde3
+ cp /dev/null /home/satimis/.kde3-errors
+ chmod 600 /home/satimis/.kde3-errors
+ exec

# cat /gdm/PreSession/Default
....
echo "$0 : could not find the sessreg utility, cannot update wtmp and utmp"
exit 0

# cat /home/satimis/.kde3-errors
.....
+ echo "kde3: kde3 not found, Quiting"
kde3=kde3 not found. Quiting
+ exit

# ls -al /home/satimis/ | grep kde
-rw-r--r-- 1 satimis satimis 1119 Jan 13 10:40 .gtkrc-kde
drwx------ 4 satimis satimis 4096 Jan 13 13:40 .kde
-rw------- 1 satimis satimis 528 Jan 13 13:28 .kde3-errors
-rw------- 1 satimis satimis 490 Jan 1 01:21 .kderc

(.kde3 not found)

Kindly advise how to fix this problem

TIA

B.R.
Stephen  Liu
(Remark: GNOME 2.4 can start without problem)