Re: Strange system hangs

[buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow)]

        hello.  Sounds like you're running into another variation of the 
still-very-much-present
tstile bug.  If you can reproduce the hang without being in X, you might
have success getting into ddb and getting a traceback and, perhaps, even
better, a crash dump.
-Brian

On Jun 27,  7:12am, Paul Goyette wrote:
} Subject: Re: Strange system hangs
} On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Adam Hamsik wrote:
} 
} > Have you tried to type call ddb_vgapost this is supposed to drop you 
} > out of Xwindows and get ddb to you.
} 
} But that would be a DDB command, and I'm not in DDB!  The kernel is 
} still running and it is responding to pings from other machines on the 
} network.
} 
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