The magic SysRc keys stop when it hangs. The d command gives me: Sep 28 20:50:08 muse kernel: [ 223.281343] SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot Crashdump tErm Full kIll saK aLlcpus showMem Nice powerOff showPc show-all-timers(Q) unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount shoW-blocked-tasks showalLcpupc up until it freezes. uname -a gives me: Linux muse 2.6.26.5-rt9 #3 SMP PREEMPT RT Sat Sep 27 20:44:21 EDT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux I'm off to bed. Tomorrow's another day. -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "'So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'" --from _Nightfall_ by Asimov/Silverberg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html