How to debug a system hang?

[Rick Stevens]

Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> Every night, and sometimes during the day, ever since I upgraded to
> Fedora Core 2, my system (ASUS CUV4X-DLS: dual P3 1GHz, 2 GB, Quantum
> Atlas 10K SCSI drive, 2 IDE drives, etc.) hangs.
> 
> What should I do to gather more information or to debug this? There's
> nothing in the system log files.
> 
> I've already built a kernel with the kernel debugging options turned on
> and with many unused modules removed, but this hasn't produced any
> useful information.
> 
> Thanks for any help and/or pointers.

Try turning off the screen saver and see if that stops it.
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