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UID of a deleted account

How can an administrator find the UID of a user that's been deleted with the userdel command?
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Capture and log GDB backtraces without stopping the process

First, a brief description of the situation: a computer sits hidden near a display in a gallery of some sort, acting as the silent workhorse for a piece. Despite its programmer's best intentions the ...
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How to investigate cause of total hang?

My Arch machine sometimes hangs, suddenly not responding in any way to the mouse or the keyboard. The cursor is frozen. Ctrl-Alt-Backsp won't stop X11, and ctrl-alt-del does exactly nothing. The ...