In message <12450.978719131@coconut.itojun.org>, itojun@iijlab.net writes:
>>Experience.  If the process in the console window is wedged, and either
>>there's no network or the network is wedged, the kernel can still be in a
>>state where it can handle the console abort.

>	how about going into DDB (ctl-alt-ESC)?

Hmm.  It would have worked if I'd remembered that it existed.  ;-)

What if you don't have DDB compiled in?

-s