[CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:

> 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.

This time it was pid 2859 and file descriptor 4, which pointed to pipe[20775] .
>From lsof:
gdm-binar 2859      root    4r     FIFO        0,8      0t0      20775 pipe
gdm-binar 2859      root    5w     FIFO        0,8      0t0      20775 pipe
Both ends of the pipe appear to be in the same process.

While gdm was hanging, I did a startx -- 4 from virtual terminal 4.
It seemed to work, but crapped out while I was composing an e-mail.
>From Xorg.4.log:
 	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[  1317.695] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[  1318.593] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3"
[  1318.593] (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
Don't know what that means.
'Tis something I've looked for before without learning anything.

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