On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Michael Hennebry > <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 2616 was in gdm.pid . >> --nodaemon? >> Here is the result of strace on it: >> restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>) = 1 >> read(3, "l\4\1\1\36\0\0\0\17\0\0\0\211\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org/fre"..., 2048) = 380 >> read(3, 0x87d3eb8, 2048) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) > > That seems odd. If you do : > ls -l /proc/2616/fd/3 > you should see the file it is trying to read.(maybe loading a shared > library, but the read should not be short like that. This time it was pid 2859 and file descriptor 4, which pointed to pipe[20775] . >From lsof: gdm-binar 2859 root 4r FIFO 0,8 0t0 20775 pipe gdm-binar 2859 root 5w FIFO 0,8 0t0 20775 pipe Both ends of the pipe appear to be in the same process. While gdm was hanging, I did a startx -- 4 from virtual terminal 4. It seemed to work, but crapped out while I was composing an e-mail. >From Xorg.4.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 1317.695] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [ 1318.593] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3" [ 1318.593] (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) Don't know what that means. 'Tis something I've looked for before without learning anything. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos