System Lockup

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

I just experienced my first ever system lockup.  No mouse, no keyboard 
with an Iceape screen open.

I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then 
Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response. 

In desperation I crashed and rebooted the system.  I am using 
linux-image 2.6.21-2-686.  When the system came up I entered grep SYSRQ 
/boot/config-$(uname -r) and got the response CONFIG_MAGIC-SYSRQ=y


So its there.  Either I did something wrong or it doesn't work with the 
problem I encountered.

Tom George