[OpenAFS] mysterious freezes

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:06:56 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:

> Thus spake Derrick J Brashear (shadow@dementia.org):
>
> > if you're losing thaat hard, it's unlikely to help. however,
> > considered serialling consoling the machine to capture console output?
>
> Well, saying "nothing on the screen" I mean nothing but the normal login
> screen. No additional output. So I doubt that I can see more than that
> on a serial console?

Not necessarily.

Another thought: do you have magic sysrq turned on? is the system
responsive enough to give you a sysrq backtrace?