Hi On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:06:18PM +0100, Vladislav Kurz wrote: [snip] > Yesterday I have upgraded and rebooted couple of machines that still use > kernel version 2.4.27, and one of them crashed after 5 and half hours. > It still responded to pings, maybe routing and firewalling as well, but SSH > and other services were unavailable. This is the only machine still using > ext2 filesystem. This maybe a similar problem which I had some time ago (on a PPC), so please try the following: Assuming that the machine is "dead", try killing all tasks via SysRq (see Documentation/sysrq.txt of the linux-kernel-source) and look if you get a login-prompt again.
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