[opensuse] disconnecting USB drive freezes 11.1

Hi all,

Anybody have any idea how to debug this:

opensuse 11.1 as a server (no X), an external USB-disk is used as a backup
with rsync. This is done with a script, disk is mounted and umounted by
the script, and this runs ok.
When the disk is disconnected, plug pulled (after umount), the machine
freezes quite hard.
Only thing working is the network card (can ping the IP), but no ssh, no
samba, and nothing is written in any log.

Where to start looking?

ATM there is no keyboard and no monitor attached. Could do this for
debugging, of course.

TIA


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