Root can startx, main user can't - new Wheezy install

[Nick Croft <nick.croft@gmail.com>]

Hello

I'm hoping you can help me with this.

I installed Wheezy a couple of days ago. Everything went fine. No glitches.
Sound, wifi, mail, ssh, X -- all good.

i kept the machine running for continuously while getting everything in place.

On the first reboot, my main user is unable to startx, while root
surprisingly can.
I've just added another user, who can also startx.

I've had something like this is the past. My solution then was to move
the main user's
files to another user, deluser the main user, adduser again, and
return the files.

I'm reluctant to go through that procedure again, there should be a
better way. Besides
there are 30G of files here.

The Xorg.0.log isn't giving me enough of a clue, tthe only errors are (==) :

[  6557.918] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[  6557.919] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Jun 12
08:44:35 2013
[  6557.919] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[  6557.919] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.

Thanks for your thoughts,

Nick