On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Uzi Refaeli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> here is something weird:
> I had RH9 machine PIII 700 which used to just hang while i was compiling something
> every thing stop responding mouse, keyboard, no movement on the screen and no disk 
> activity - nada...
> I had to power down the machine and restart it.


  I would try sysrq first. Might have prevented the need to violently
use the power switch and perhaps even to get some leads as to where the
problem is. You might want to look at 
kernel-source/Documentation/sysrq.txt. In addition, my experience is
that these sort of problems requires a lot of patient (is this the right
spelling for willingness to wait more?): take a walk for a hour or two.
The machine might respond to previous entries during that time. Or it 
might writes some useful information in the logs. In addition, can you
try making an ssh or serial connection to the machine?

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