Quote Originally Posted by Kowood
Ok, so I've got Kanotix Bug Hunter X Fix 2 installed Debian-style, and yesterday I felt like installing Blender. So I logged in as root, installed Blender, and then logged back out. When I tried to log in as user, the screen went black for a second, and then just went back to the login screen. I tried the console login, but then it gave me the whole "couldn't connect to x-server" bullshit, so I couldn't start KDE or run any programs. A friend told me to restart the login manager....But I don't know which one it is.
"couldn't connect to x-server" is the systems way of saying your x-server is toast.
Well, it could be alot of things but what does the command "startx" produce?

Something may have happened during the blender install that caused problems with
the xfree config or permissions. How exactly did you install blender-by using apt-get
or some other way?