KDE 3.1 fails to login/start

[satimis]

Hi folks,

Debian - testing/unstable
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.
satimis
(Remark: GNOME 2.4 can start without problem)

[hkwint]

I think the following is wrong, because you ARE root I expect. If you are, the following is useless.

Well, don't know the solution, but you can try ether to use the stable version I think, and I had problems with KDE a few times which were solved by changing a few permissions. Does it ether give the same output if you run it as root? Maybe this will lead to an answer.
I say this, because it has problems with updating things, and when I cannot update thins, it usually is because I'm not root.

Good luck!