Comment 13 for bug 59242

I tried again, to see what I could see about those two processes. I attached to each of them with strace and saw no activity. The kdm process seemed to be hung up on a read. Peeked at the xorg log, saw nothing interesting. I was just about to switch back to gdm when bam, I got an nvidia splash screen. This probably took about 2 minutes. It also took longer than usual (not sure how long, I went out to smoke) to get past the bare X screen with that "x" cursor. I've seen some similar behavior on Gnome desktops when there's a firewall blocking invalid packets regardless of source (Gnome generates a lot of that on lo, it looks like) but I'm not running Gnome and not running a firewall on this box. I've also seen similar stuff when lo is down, which it's not here. I'm going to change the description of this bug.