[CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:

> 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?

I know what strace does, but where should I use it?

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