KDE panel and icons don't load under default user

[Snipor]

Hello, maybe you guys can help me with this. I'm running Red Hat 7.1 w/KDE 2.0. I have two users, Root and User. When I log on as root and it starts to load KDE, it gets stuck on loading the panel. The loading screen eventually goes away and I'm left with a blank desktop. No icons, no display panel. If I'm lucky enough to reboot without any errors, I can logon as root, and it seems to work ( I was successfull at doing this once, normally it drops me into some type of maintance prompt and, as I just learned, need to run fsck manually).

Any ideas why this keeps happening?

[Snipor]

So nobody has never had this problem? This happens way too often to me for it not to be a problem that somebody has experienced? Maybe it's a bug with KDE? I did notice that Gnome never did anything like this before.

[dynaco]

my suggestion is to go to redhat.com and download the kdelibs-2.1.2-1 updates
there are 5 rpm's to get 4 kdelibs and 1 artsd
download all 5 into a fresh directory
then as root cd to that directory
and run the following rpm -Fvh *.rpm
just make sure you are not running kde when you do this
these rpm's should install cleanly....
then retry startx
hope this helps