On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 22:33:36 PM +0200, Vincent Knecht (vknecht at club-internet.fr) wrote: > > erm, well, I got that too (freeze of yum update in cleanup stage). > When I finally went to the console, the server was spitting lots of ext3 > (filesystem) error messages :-( > I had no other option than restart the barbarian way (I had the magic SysRq > disabled, so maybe you can avoid that), SOrry, what is, in this case, the "barbarian way"? This is a remote server on UM Linux. What I can do is to log in at the emergency console, or whatever the ISP calls it, and type a halt command there. Is this what you are suggesting? Also, I don't understand the "magic SysRq disabled part. What do you mean? > So I'd say check if there are messages on the console typing C-z, C-c, what? THanks, Marco