Hi, My main Gentoo box was hung this morning. It's been up and running fine for 6 months at least. This is the third time it hung this week. When hung the mouse and keyboard would not work, so I couldn't get past xscreensaver. ssh did not respond so I couldn't even come in from another machine to look around. The front power switch didn't work, so basically my wife had to just pull the plug for me.
How do I debug this problem after the fact? There is nothing in /var/log/messages, and nothing particularly strange in dmesg. Applications I'm pretty sure were running when it hung were gkrellm, setiathome, and whatever gconf/benobo stuff is left over after Evolution has run and exited. (Does anyone know how to kill that stuff, other than kill?) I Can certainly not run those and see if the problem goes away, but that could take weeks since this only happens once in a while. I'm thinking that this may be due to something emerged in the last week of so. How can I check what I've emerged since Oct. 1st? Thanks in advance, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
