X is very very dead - please help!

[Mudelf]

Upon starting up my RedHat 8 system I received errors when X started trying to start up - these read INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes'

This had occurred after I had reinstalled KDE from my original RedHat Install Discs.

I did some searching and know that INIT is trying to enter run level 5 and start x but something is missing or wrongly configured. I also checked through the /var/log directory but cannot see anything specific beyond the "respawning" error listed above.

Currently I am unable to get X to start at all. When I run "startx" a badly
deformed X terminal starts with the mouse pointer being the only visible thing.

My question is how can I determine the cause of this OR how should I go about removing ALL traces of X, KDE, Gnome etc. allowing me reinstall these from scratch? There are bits and peaces of gnome and kde all over the place.

rpm -e says that they are not installed despite the fact that "whereis kde" or "whereis gnome" says that they are ...

Any ideas??? !

[kriss]

find / -name *kde* -print
updatedb
whereis startkde


use that as root, and see what it finds. maybe try to post your xfree log, located in /var/log

Good luck