Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

[Stepan Golosunov <stepan@golosunov.pp.ru>]

29.08.2008 в 19:51:13 +0200 Frank Küster написал:
> Am 28.08.2008 um 22:41 schrieb Frank Küster:
>> Package: general
>> Severity: grave
>>
>> Since late last week, my system completely hangs - it stops accepting
>> any input from keyboard or mouse - after 3 to 5 minutes after booting.
>> This happens both in a text console and when running X.
>
> I should have been more specific here. It's not only the input, it's the 
> output as well. For example, if aptitude is downloading packages in an 
> rxvt window, the percent count stops changing as well, the display is 
> also frozen.
>
> Any (ethernet) network also seems to stop: It no longer answers to  
> pings, and a remote ssh login stops working, too.
>
> Any ideas how I can start debugging this?

Looks similar to #479709, which happens with linux 2.6.25/2.6.26 but not
2.6.24 and seems to be provoked by chrony.