On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:
BTW, I still feel a little confused on what the OP's original problem was and why they are headed in the direction of a 'reinstall the system'. Seems a bit overkill for most problems.
gdm hangs. All attempts at diagnosis or repair have failed. I've done a yum reinstall *
Most recently I did an explicit uninstall of gdm and its dependents. After installing them again I issued the following command: [root@localhost] hennebry# telinit 5 [root@localhost] hennebry# Calling the system activity data collector (sadc): Starting portreserve: [OK] Enabling p4-clockmod driver (passive cooling only): [OK] Starting irqbalance: [OK] Retrigger failed udev events: [OK] Enabling Bluetooth devices user had insufficient privilege
After I got back from another virtual terminal, the subsequent lines had appeared. I do not have any bluetooth devices.
I really hate having to reinstall the system. It's giving up, but I'm beaten. What is worse, I do not even know whether the reinstall will work.