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 at localhost] hennebry# telinit 5 [root at 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. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "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