E17 fails to start when not run as root

Question

Greetings
I'm a relatively new user to Arch Linux, although I've been running it on my laptop for some time and enjoyed it. Long story short, these days I decided to put it as a main OS on my desktop machine. Everything was OK, the system booted fine and the X server was working lovely, until I decided to put in E17 (from the days of OpenGEU, that's still my favourite WM). The problem is, if I start it from the root acc, it starts without problems and works out-of-the-box. But when I start it with a normal account, it starts the X server and then dies (yeah, great, so close...).
The first thing that came to mind was file permissions, but anything I managed to find in the enlightenment folders was world readable. I tried starting it with the SLiM manager instead of startx (.xinitrc's on both accounts contain only "exec enlightenment_start"), copied the root's .e folder in the user' one, even tried "xinit /usr/bin/enlightenment" - nothing of these worked.
Log of the root starting session: http://pastebin.com/JK6gmyui
Log of the user starting session: http://pastebin.com/G3ru1aCR
When I read the logs, my first thought was the system was hanging because of the e_randr error, but it exists in the root logs too, so this couldn't be the problem. Apparently something's screwing up on e_ipc loading, but I've absolutely no clue why.
I'll be really, really grateful to anyone who has the patience to try and help me get to the bottom of this, since I don't like the perspective of making the root account my every day acc only because of E17.
Thanks in advance (:

Answer 1

I'm not a guru (I was hoping one would have stepped in by now!) so I can't suggest much beyond the usual recommendations:
Have a look through /var/log/messages - I get a few lines like
Sep 21 07:45:34 localhost dbus[718]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' (using servicehelper)
Sep 21 07:45:34 localhost dbus[718]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' (using servicehelper)
Sep 21 07:45:34 localhost polkitd[949]: started daemon version 0.105 using authority implementation `local' version `0.105'
Sep 21 07:45:34 localhost dbus[718]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1'
Sep 21 07:45:34 localhost dbus[718]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit'
that seem to indicate things are happy.
You've already posted your /var/log/Xorg.0.log - the only thing that caught my eye there was the vesa module load failure, but I'm assuming that is okay since the intel module was loaded later.
Also have a look through the output of dmesg - mine doesn't show anything of interest, but I'm not having the trouble.
Unfortunately, that's about as far as I can go. To be honest, all this *Kit/dbus stuff baffles the heck out of me. I'm an old-timer, so I never saw the need to go any farther than the original Unix permission flags. Anyway, the fact that you can run it as root but not as a normal user really smells like a permission flag, group membership, or rule problem. I just don't know where better to point you.
Mike
BTW, the e-svn-arche17 packages I use pull in the very latest subversion level every time they are run and compiles it fresh, so they are always the bleeding-est edge stuff. Even if the packages themselves don't change very often, what they produce does. However, I doubt very much that this is the problem.