Hanging server

[Ben Scott]

On 2/21/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> Any suggestions as to how I might debug this or possible causes would
> be greatly appreciated.

  Have you tried enabling and using the magic SysRq keys?

http://snafu.freedom.org/linux2.2/docs/sysrq.txt

  You might also crank up logging on everything, configure syslog or
whatever to dump the logging to a virtual console, and leave the
physical console switching to that VC.  That way, at least, you'll
know what was going on before the system crapped out.

-- Ben