On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@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,
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@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
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
I know what strace does, but where should I use it?
strace -p PID of gdm
I've made three posts since then. Two of them mentioned using strace on gdm.
Are you not getting my posts?
--
Michael
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From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:25 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
SNIP
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:
BTW, I still feel a little confused on what the OP's original problem
was and why they are headed in the direction of a 'reinstall the
system'. Seems a bit overkill for most problems.
gdm hangs.
All attempts at
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 30.10.2013 18:28, schrieb Michael Hennebry:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:
BTW, I still feel a little confused on what the OP's original problem
was and why they are headed in the direction of a 'reinstall
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@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
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@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
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
gdm hangs.
[...]
user had insufficient privilege
That likely means
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
gdm hangs.
[...]
user had
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
I know what strace does, but where should I use it?
Either ssh in from somewhere else or log in on a virtual terminal
(e.g. alt+F2) so you still have access if the main console hangs when
you 'telinit 5'. Use ps in the other session to see if you can
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@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)
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
gdm hangs.
[...]
user had insufficient privilege
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Mark LaPierre wrote:
On 10/28/2013 05:44 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Absent other ideas, I might try re-installing CentOS or re-installing X.
I did a
yum reinstall \*
.
gdm or something still hangs.
The gdm log suggests it
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Mark LaPierre wrote:
On 10/28/2013 05:44 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Absent other ideas, I might try re-installing CentOS or re-installing
X.
I did a
yum reinstall \*
.
gdm or something still
The nesting is getting a little deep.
Michael Hennebry wrote:
After the install,
I would restore the directory that listed all my repositories.
This is a step I am not sure about.
I have a vague recollection that that is not sufficient.
What else would I need to do?
Michael Hennebry
Michael Hennebry wrote:
The nesting is getting a little deep.
Michael Hennebry wrote:
After the install,
I would restore the directory that listed all my repositories.
This is a step I am not sure about.
I have a vague recollection that that is not sufficient.
What else would I need to do?
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
Maybe I was not clear.
I'm refering to reinstalling CentOS.
My current CentOS hangs after trying to start gdm.
My diagnostic efforts have been for nought,
so I want to more or less start over.
I already
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
Most repositories will have a 'name-release.rpm' where name is the
name of the repository. This will install the entry under
/etc/yum/repos.d and set up the gpg key for the rpms. If you have a
URL to the repo release rpm, yum can install for you
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
However, note that your current problem may be related to something
you've pulled from a 3rd party repository so you should avoid blindly
repeating the process. I'd install/update the package list from
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
However, note that your current problem may be related to something
you've pulled from a 3rd party repository so you should avoid blindly
repeating the process.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
Most repositories will have a 'name-release.rpm' where name is the
name of the repository. This will install the entry under
/etc/yum/repos.d and set up the gpg key for the rpms. If you have a
These, for example:
[hennebry@localhost rpms]$ ls
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
Most repositories will have a 'name-release.rpm' where name is the
name of the repository. This will install the entry under
/etc/yum/repos.d and set up the gpg key for the rpms. If you have a
These, for example:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
Most repositories will have a 'name-release.rpm' where name is the
name of the repository. This will install the entry under
/etc/yum/repos.d and set up the gpg
On 10/29/2013 4:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
[hennebry@localhost rpms]$ ls
atrpms-repo-6-6.el6.i686.rpm rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
[hennebry@localhost rpms]$
?
Yes you can use a local copy of the rpm and either 'rpm -Uhv' it or
'yum localinstall' it.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
Most repositories will have a 'name-release.rpm' where name is the
name of the repository. This will install the entry
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
Most repositories will have a 'name-release.rpm' where name is the
name of the repository. This will install the entry under
/etc/yum/repos.d and set up the gpg key for the rpms.
On 10/29/2013 4:49 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I should have been more clear:
Are the above .rpm's repository install rpm's?
those rpms install the yum.repos.d file along with the GPG keys for the
repository, so by installing the repo RPM, you can then use yum to
install anything in that
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
Yes you can use a local copy of the rpm and either 'rpm -Uhv' it or
'yum localinstall' it.
or:
I should have been more clear:
Are the above .rpm's repository install rpm's?
I was hoping someone could
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Michael Hennebry
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Absent other ideas, I might try re-installing CentOS or re-installing X.
I have a pretty good idea how to do the former,
but the latter might be harder despite,
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Absent other ideas, I might try re-installing CentOS or re-installing X.
I have a pretty good idea how to do the former,
but the latter might be harder despite, in principle, being less
intrusive.
Reinstalling everything
On 10/28/2013 05:44 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Absent other ideas, I might try re-installing CentOS or re-installing X.
I have a pretty good idea how to do the former,
but the latter might be harder despite, in principle, being less intrusive.
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