From /var/log/messages: Jan 16 01:35:27 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 01:55:37 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 02:15:44 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 02:35:52 osage -- MARK -- Jan 16 02:55:58 osage -- MARK --
This morning my computer was foobar'd (after 200+ days uptime). Initially the screen was black -- not surprising as that's the screen saver mode. Moving the mouse didn't wake up Gnome. Pushing a key caused the screen to refresh (after more seconds than is normal) and show the VirtualBox session I was using last night. On the down side, moving the mouse didn't move the on-screen cursor. There was no apparent keyboard response, and I didn't think to try the magic SYSRQ key. Switching to a second machine, I could ping the first machine just fine. However ssh didn't produce a prompt. I let the connect attempt continue while I ate breakfast (say 15 or 20 minutes). So, I pushed the big red switch, rebooted the machine, then looked at /var/log/messages. From 01:35 until 06:35, at intervals of 20 minutes and 7 seconds, there were MARK messages as shown above. In addition to that there was only 1 statistics message from syslog-ng. Anybody know what a "--- MARK ---" message mean?? Regards, David P.S. The machine is an AMD64 running 2.6.28-gentoo-r5. Overnight, VirtualBox was running (though in an idle state) and (probably) BackupPC was also running. Other than those 2 processes, nothing of significance was running, AFAIK.
