I'll send the message later but I regularly get it when using dhclient on 
start up. (usually have to reboot 3-4 times before all is well) and 
sometimes get it when inserting or removing a pcmcia CD drive. Also got it 
the other day part way through a 'make && make install' of abiword. If its 
a kernel problem whats the best way of dealing with it? I'm a total novice 
and am just finding my feet with unix :-)

cheers
steve

On Aug 15 2004, Matthew Orgass wrote:

> On 2004-08-15 sd20@york.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > a few times now when my machine feels like grumbling it throws me into
> > debug (db>) - how do you get out of this?
> 
>   What is the error?  If you just accedently hit Ctrl-Alt-Esc you can type
> "c" and it will continue.  For most other errors that doesn't work and you
> need to reboot ("reboot" from DDB will usually work too, unless the error
> is in a disk related part of the kernel.  kloader will fail more
> frequently than syncing the disks.).  If you are compiling a kernel and
> don't ever want to use DDB you can comment out "options DDB" in the config
> file and it will dump core to swap (if available) and reboot when it
> encounters an error (and the key sequence will no longer do anything
> special).  See also "man ddb" for further ddb info.  Unless you are
> inducing it, this should never happen and indicates a serious kernel bug.
> 
> Matthew Orgass
> darkstar@city-net.com
> 
>