On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:54:14AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >machine. Ideally, if you have another machine, you could try to ssh in > >to the locked box. sometimes this works as you can get into the > >machine and using top and other tools, see what is causing trouble and > >kill it to regain direct control of the machine. > > OK, I've also tried having a telnet-ssl session into the Debian machine > before this happens and that session has locked up with the Debian > machine. The hard disk light has remained on solid. > > What could be logged from multiple text terminal sessions that might > give a hint? Running all applications with strace output redirected to > terminal sessions? Monitoring all syslog output to yet another terminal > session? > Well, I guess that means you really are experiencing a hard lock. Yes, you could run several sessions on your remote machine (or even the local, if the screen remains intact) with various 'tail -f <logfile>` instances running and straces redirected, maybe a top too all in the hope of seeing something before it borks. A
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