Description of problem: [ -w /var/gdm/.gdmfifo ] && echo "BOOTUP_ERRORS" > /var/gdm/.gdmfifo Causes my machine to hang on failures Seems there is no one else on the other end of .gdmfifo it just hangs. I was booting to level 3 and this was happening.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156355 ***