My serial console was running fine but then eventually hang with the following messages: INIT: Id "co" respawni INIT: no more processe INIT: Id "co" respawni INIT: Id "co" respawni I was able to ssh into the box and cat the content of /proc/interrupts and found the following line is missing: 4: xxxxx IO-APIC-edge serial When I did "init 5" and "init 3", I was able to get back my login prompt and missing line in /proc/interrupts. I will appreciate if someone can tell me how to debug the problem. For example, under what circumstances, will the /proc/interrupts is not reporting IRQ 4 ? Thanks. - Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html