On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:

>Do you think something went wrong much earlier than the hanging point?

Maybe, you didn't post the whole log so all I can do is trust your investigation
skills.

>
>Ctrl-Alt-F<n>, n=1, 2, 3, ... doesn't work. Ctrl-Alt-Delete does.
>
>X doesn't start automatically. I run startx after logging in on the
>terminal. I have 2 as initdefault.
>

Just to be sure, you do have a monitor plugged in right? In case of kernel
panic, you'd want to see what it is panicking about.

>
>Perhaps I should have started in single-user mode and then manually
>run the scripts in /etc/rc2.d, in lexicographical order, with some
>checks between one and the next. Would that work?
>

I don't know. Have you tried? I'm more in the dark than you are. You can handle
machine, after all :)

You said it's a new problem. Did you take a look at the kernel mailing list for
possible regression? A quick search turned a regression linked to servers
equipped with AMD ES1000:

       https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2826

Cheers,
                 Ludovic