On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:51:33PM +0000, Michael wrote:
A hard reboot is the only exit.
Humour me: start a normal reboot and see how long it takes if you get chance. Unless it's completely frozen, it should still make it.
Could a defrag or some other similar drive maintenance be running as a timed process?
Something could be, but not a defrag. Linux doesn't really need a defrag as such (see http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html) and the drives need to be unmounted to do anything serious to them -- ie before the system has booted or on admin command.
Is there any way I can identify what exactly is happening? I can't access another run level so can't see how else I can examine what's going on.
Look at the files in /var/log and see what was going on at the time of the crash/slowdown. If you can get to a text screen, control-alt-scroll lock is a magic combination, I think.
MJR
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