Ah, sorry - the system came back and I could continue my work.
However I couldn't hibernate my system (I tried it 2 additional times)
as long as
my user mode linux image was running (2.6.23 UML kernel). Within UML I
ran cupsd to which firefox
was trying to make a connection. Firefox itself was waiting for a
response of the cupsd server,
the cupsd itself was generating the ssl -files under /etc/cupsd/ssl as
far as I could read from the cupsd log.
I pressed <Fn>+<F12> to hibernate the system, and b/c the scrren was
black and came back some secs later I had have a look into
/var/log/message and copied the outout into my first mail.
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