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I usually leave my computer on over night, for seeding purposes. When I went to wake it up this morning, I noticed that I had no keyboard activity. No num lock, ctrl+alt+backspace (Kills the X Windows session) wasn’t working… nor was ctrl+alt+F12 (the DMESG view). The monitor came on to a black screen (power saving mode.) The thing was hung. My keyboard has an LCD built into it, which shows the system time. It was stopped at 3:15 AM. So, I reboot.
On reboot I see that there are several major errors: Udev wasn’t loading properly, the System Clock cannot be accessed, ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) won’t load, nor will my network card. Crap.
What did I do last night? I ran a deep system update based on a new portage listing. What was updated? Umm… my Vorbis libraries… oh, the Linux Kernel Headers. Well, that might have something to do with it. So, genkernel -all, wait 30 minutes, reboot… success! I don’t know if the kernel rebuild was strictly necessary, but it seems to have done the trick.
Going through the logs from last night, all I can see is the cron agent running at 3:00, and then some NTFS checks happening. Nothing that *should* have caused a major freak out. We’ll see how things go tonight.
*Update*
After posting on the Gentoo forums, it turns out the issue had to do with my NTFS driver and my localization settings. Two commands and my system hasn’t seized in days!