On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:43:52 -0400
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
OK...was the problem the system would not shutdown in preparation to
reboot, or was the problem the system tried to go thru the boot(-up)
process and failed?
Well, since the screen went totally blank, and there was nothing
in the logs, I can't actually say for sure :-).
The good thing was that I didn't notice fsck forcing any checks
of partitions after I power cycled, so perhaps the important
parts got processed before it hung for whatever reason.