How to debug a hung system?

[Colin Charles]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 08:52 +0100, Keith Sharp wrote:
> > I installed FC3 on a ASUS Terminator C3 PC. It has a
> > VIA C3 CPU. The system becomes completely unresponsive
> > from time to time. The only thing I could do was to do
> > a hard reboot. Any suggestions on how to debug such a
> > system?
> 
> You will probably need to use a serial console to connect to the
> system
> and capture any output.  See:
>
>         http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/

We build netconsole as a module, so having that loaded would be somewhat
useful. Be warned of the UDP traffic.

Read Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt from your kernel
documentation for more information about it
-- 
Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/