Debugging a system hang.

[Naoki]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 07:57 -0500, Matthew E. Lauterbach wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 14:32 +0900, Naoki wrote:
> 
> > Then nothing, a long list of 100% idle..  I CTRL-C'ed it and ran 'dmesg'
> > which has still not come back with anything and the box is now down to
> > the point of being unable to SSH into it.  Ohh, exciting.
> > 
> > There is no trace on the console and when I type in 'root' and press the
> > return key I get a newline created.. And then a whole lot of nothing.  I
> > can get chars on the screen but CTRL-ALT-DEL fail to provide joy.
> 
> Try turning SELinux off long enough to see if it is causing a problem.
> 
> Matthew E. Lauterbach

Ahh good idea. 

Ok done that and you know what.. No problem, the 8GB transfered as
expected and the box is still up.  So, what remains now is to work out
why selinux locks up my machine on an rsync over ssh?  Should I move off
into the fedora list now and ask there?