[CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Michael Hennebry
<hennebry at 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.

>> 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.

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   Les Mikesell
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