Subject: Re: Ctrl+Alt+Esc = db>
To: Thomas Miller <tmiller@flex.com>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/06/2003 10:36:22
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:30:56PM -0500, 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.  
> 
> Although I am having Really A Lot of Fun with NetBSD, I don't know
> very much at all about what I am doing.  Therefore, there is a 
> high probability that I have done something wrong.  
> 
> Is the following information helpful?
> 
> aluminum# Stopped at	cpu_Debugger+0x4:	leave
> db> trace
> cpu_Debugger(0,c0397220,1,0,c08d1800) at cpu_Debugger+0x4
> internal_command(c08d4500,c0406dc4,f420,1b,1) at internal_command+0x183

ctrl-alt-esc is the magic three finger salute to drop into ddb, which
is what you are seeing.

It's not really crashing your machine ('continue' would let it keep
going).

:-)

g.