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Hi, |
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For the first time in a couple of years I had a total hard hang |
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today when a Virtualbox VM was doing some updates to M$ Office. The |
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compute server was completely alive & then completely hung. The mouse |
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wouldn't move, I couldn't switch to the console and I couldn't log in |
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from another machine. I tried Alt-Ctrl-SysRq REISUB but there was no |
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response to that either so I went with a hard reset and did some |
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fsck's to ensure everything was OK. (It was...) After bringing the |
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machine back up I tested that the Magic SysRq worked, and it did, so |
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the hang was hard enough to stop even that. |
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My question about this is what's your guess about where the hang |
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occurred? Was it purely in the kernel and I just hit some corner |
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condition that caused it? Or could it be that a hang in the VM could |
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completely bring the machine to a halt such that the kernel never |
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gains control even after waiting 15 minutes? |
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The kernel was gentoo-sources-3.0.4, not the -r1 that came out today. |
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Looking forward to all ideas. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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