Re: multi-user startup failure Pre-seeding PRNG:

From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy_at_optushome.com.au> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:00:54 +1000 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:18 UTC

On Tue, 2004-Oct-19 15:43:32 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Can you break into the debugger via Ctrl-Alt-ESC?
>
>nope

If it's convenient sometime, try Ctrl-Alt-ESC and leave it for some
time (½-1 hr - eg over lunch or dinner) and see if anything happens.

I've seen a situation where an interrupt storm made the system look
non-responsive but it was actually just very slow.  (Though this
was in 4.x and the interrupt watchdog in 5.x should trap this case).

-- 
Peter Jeremy