Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Michael Hennebry
> <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hennebry
>>> <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> gdm hangs.
>>> [...]
>>>> user had insufficient privilege
>>>
>>> That likely means that the pid file for the process you are about to
>>> start exists in /var/run/ but it is unreadable. You should be running
>>> as root at that point, so that's odd, but maybe you have file system
>>> corruption or some other cruft there. I don't think should cause a
>>> hang, though. If you switch to a virtual console can you tell what
>>> process is hung and see what strace says it is waiting for?
>>
>> I know what strace does, but where should I use it?
>
> Either ssh in from somewhere else or log in on a virtual terminal
> (e.g. alt+F2) so you still have access if the main console hangs when
> you 'telinit 5'. Use ps in the other session to see if you can find
> the hung process and then 'strace -p pid' will show if it is waiting
> for some system call to complete.
>
> Does 'startx' work at the console from runlevel 3?
Interesting question: can you run xinit with twm? How about kde?
mark
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