I get this error and cannot start opensuse 11.3 under kde. I am running a dual boot 32 bit system with winxp and sharing a data file under separate nfts partition at /home.

If you create a new user does it work there?
Also, can you verify that KDE has been installed properly? ( Your distribution will know more about this, I think the package kdebase4-workspace should install most of what is needed )

It's possible there is something wrong with your home-partition.....

Your /home is partitioned as ext4, or...?
=> I don't quite understand your explanation about ntfs (maybe my English )

Are you using the Qt 4.7 repo?

I don't know which QT repository. My /home was set up on a NTFS (file system) partition in order to share files with WINXP. Incidentally, I cannot find /local. Where should it be? I am trying to load openSuSe 11.3. Thanks for guidance.

I don't know which QT repository. My /home was set up on a NTFS (file system) partition in order to share files with WINXP. Incidentally, I cannot find /local. Where should it be? I am trying to load openSuSe 11.3. Thanks for guidance.

The mounting of a NTFS partition as /home may be causing this problem. I would recommend mounting it as /data or /home/user/data rather than /home. This is because NTFS may not support sockets, symbolic links, etc.

(at the same time as bcooksley... )
One thing that's going wrong is that your home is placed on a NTFS file system....
=> ext3 or ext4 or .... have other permissions than NTFS
(reference: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=901127)

A better thing you can do is the following...:
Make a separate partition, formatted as NTFS; and format your /home partition as ext4 or ext3....
Then make a mount point in /etc/fstab for that separate partition (e.g. /mnt/data) and there you can put all your data...
(like this way, your /home directory only contains configurations.... you can configure KDE to have other automatically linked directories e.g. Movies, Pictures, Documents, Downloads, ...)