From: Stewart Williams <lists at pinkyboots.co.uk> > Sometimes (more often than not) when I log in at the physical console > (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc.) I will be logged in and it stops responding even > if the shell is not doing anything. > When this happens I can still switch to another VT with alt+f2 and login > as normal. > I don't know if bash, mingetty or whatever process is locking up. If I Maybe try an strace on the shell to see on what it is stuck... JD