[CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?

Wed Oct 30 19:52:04 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 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?
>
strace -p <PID of gdm>

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