[CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?

[Les Mikesell]

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?

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   Les Mikesell
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