Our report from the incident on 25/04/2012 is as follows.
Issue
sms-akuma restarted
Underlying cause
Watchdog triggered a reboot
Symptoms
Complete loss of service on sms-akuma.
Resolution
The automatic watchdog monitoring service restarted the server after detecting a non-recoverable error. After an automatic fsck - the system came back up successfully following 36 minutes downtime.