Re: [CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:

2616 was in gdm.pid . --nodaemon? Here is the result of strace on it: restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>) = 1 read(3, "l\4\1\1\36\0\0\0\17\0\0\0\211\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org/fre"..., 2048) = 380 read(3, 0x87d3eb8, 2048) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

That seems odd. If you do : ls -l /proc/2616/fd/3 you should see the file it is trying to read.(maybe loading a shared library, but the read should not be short like that.

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Does 'startx' work at the console from runlevel 3?

I'll try it.

It might make the machine usable to do that instead of a gdm login.