Subject: Re: Ctrl+Alt+Del = db>
To: Joel Wilsson <joelw@unix.se>
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: current-users
Date: 01/06/2003 02:16:57
Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:44:36AM +0100, Joel Wilsson:
> On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 12:30  am, Thomas Miller wrote:
> >I accidentally hit Ctrl+Alt+Esc when I meant to type Ctrl+Alt+F1.
> >I discovered that hitting Ctrl+Alt+Esc crashes my system reliably,
> >where "reliably" means five times in a row.
> 
> That's ddb, the in-kernel debugger. From the ddb(4) man page:
> "... key sequences for each port that will activate ddb from
>  the keyboard:
>  [...]
>  i386     <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Esc>"
> 
> You can disable it by compiling a kernel using a kernel config
> without options DDB in it, if it really disturbs you.
> 
> //joelw

isnt it changable with sysctl -w hw.cnmagic= ?