The box responded to pings and eventually unlocked after about a minute.
Nothing reported in syslog.
The machine was _probably_ doing a swap at the time (I'd just switched back to Netscape)
but not heavily loaded. I forgot to check my XLoad graph, though.
-- Peter
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