On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> 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. >> Does 'startx' work at the console from runlevel 3? > > I'll try it. It might make the machine usable to do that instead of a gdm login. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com