On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:18:30PM +0100, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> 
> It does rather look like a break was received on the console. "comintr"
> in the backtrace is telling here.

This hasn't happened to me, but it has come up a few different times on
another list. Apparently it's common enough for some machines to send a
break on shutdown, startup or both. One person was having a hard time
figuring out what was wrong with their headless box. As long as they
were watching via serial everything was ok, so they'd leave the cable on
and shut down the serial "head" machine, and the headless box wouldn't
work. Start up the "head" machine again and see ddb>! Took them a while
before they realized the correlation.

It's easiest to get into the habit of only connecting serial when you're
using it, or plug it into something that stays up.

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