Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hennebry >> <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> 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? > strace -p <PID of gdm> mark