~/kde/bin/ ./startkde 
kdostartupconfig(26105) main: Running kdostartupconfig.
Creating link /home/alexbe01/.kde4s/tmp-Lappy_486.
Created link from "/home/alexbe01/.kde4s/tmp-Lappy_486" to "/tmp/alexbe01-kde4/kde-alexbe01"
Creating link /home/alexbe01/.kde4s/cache-Lappy_486.
Created link from "/home/alexbe01/.kde4s/cache-Lappy_486" to "/var/tmp/kdecache-alexbe01"
Creating link /home/alexbe01/.kde4s/socket-Lappy_486.
Created link from "/home/alexbe01/.kde4s/socket-Lappy_486" to "/tmp/alexbe01-kde4/ksocket-alexbe01"
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /home/alexbe01/kde/lib/kde4/libexec
kdeinit4: Launched KLauncher, pid = 26132 result = 1
kdeinit4: PID 26132 terminated.
kdeinit4: opened connection to :0.0
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /home/alexbe01/kde/bin
kdeinit4: Launched KDED, pid = 26133 result = 1
kdeinit4: PID 26133 terminated.
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /home/alexbe01/kde/bin
kdeinit4: Launched 'kcminit_startup', pid = 26134 result = 1
kdeinit4: PID 26134 terminated.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
kdeinit4_wrapper: Warning: connect(/home/alexbe01/.kde4s/socket-Lappy_486/kdeinit4__0) failed: : Connection refused
ksmserver(26135) KSMServer::restoreSession: KSMServer::restoreSession  "saved at previous logout"