The following reply was made to PR kern/36884; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/36884: kernel panic upon powering down serial console client machine
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:59:03 -0400

 Hello,
 
 See also this earlier PR:
 http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=17919
 
 I think, depending upon the port, changing the cnmagic value on its own
 might not fix this problem, e.g. on hp700 it's set to "+++++", but
 sending a break on the console also drops to ddb.  (I see that cobalt
 doesn't have an entry in ddb(4) under "Entering the debugger".)  The
 earlier PR notes that using ddb.fromconsole=0 effected the desired
 behaviour.
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave