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• hung adj. [from `hung up'; common] Equivalent to wedged, but more common at Unix/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with locked up, wedged...
• wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• locked up: adj. Syn. for {hung}, {wedged}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• locked up adj. Syn. for hung, wedged.
• hang: v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
• hang v. 1. [very common] To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
• deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• hosed: adj. Same as {down}. Used primarily by UNIX hackers.
  Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse....