Mysterious RHEL 4 crash

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:33 -0700
>From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor at uipacific.com>  
>
>My server decided to crash about 10pm last night.  It just locked up.  I
>came in this morning and the console was unresponsive, no virtual
>terminal, nothing.  /var/log/messages doesn't show anything either.
>Admittedly I am pretty new to linux, and I don't know what other logs I
>can check.
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How did you restart it - the three-finger kill, or did you need to do a hardware reset?

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