> On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:54:57PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > Why would DDB cause hangs?
>
> If you are not at the console and the kernel panics and drops to ddb
> then that is the same as a hang if you were remotely accessing the
> machine.  Without ddb the machine would have just rebooted which would
> be annoying but, hopefully, you could get back onto the machine after
> it came back up.

At this situation blindly typing "sync" and hitting Enter really helps :)

// wbr