Hi, This is a very strange problem. The console hung but ping to it is ok. Ssh to it seems to be ok but there is no shell. This is 2.4.31 (I know the kernel is ancient but I have no choice to maintain it). I have kdb and LKCD built-in. I was able to use ctrl-A to break into kdb as well as using sysrq-key (i.e. send break). I also cause a LKCD dump but could not identify the problem. The current running process is swapper. The login process is still there but no "bash" process anymore. There are several cron processes which is kind of unusual. I am suspecting they are struck waiting for some resources? I don't think it is a spinlock problem otherwise I should be able to find it through kdb. Any suggestion that I should look for. Thanks. - Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ