There's a very similar hang that happens to my two iMacs once in a while that involves the GPU crashing. That causes the screen to become unresponsive while the rest of the OS is still running. I can generally ssh in, check the logs and reboot it cleanly, but if enough other stuff hangs on the video driver then even ssh or disk accesses will freeze.
Judging by reports I've read it seems to be a design fault wrt the video interface and has never been fixed. It occurs on my wife's iMac more often than mine and fortunately it's pretty rare. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:10 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > on 2013-09-04 17:48 Larry Colen wrote > >> It's a weird crash because the cursor is still active, but less and less >> functionality is available. It'll answer pings, but I can't ssh in. > > > first thing i'd do is check the logs; not sure what "less and less > functionality" you mean, but it sounds like more of an OS issue than a > hardware issue; not that it should stop you from getting a new machine ;?> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
