On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:02:47AM -0500, Rich Noonan wrote:
> On Friday 13 December 2002 09:01, Derek Peschel wrote:
> > But der Mouse also mentioned ddb, the kernel debugger.  Would that work
> > for you?  It can sync and reboot and do other things.  On my machine,
> > the keystroke is control-option-escape at the console.  You might be
> > able to set up a keystroke that will go through your terminal server.
> > You should also make sure you can run ddb reliably (I discovered the
> > 1.5 kernel needed some patches before it would work for me).
> 
> This sounds like what I need.  Nothing fancy (though I do appreciate the 
> off-the-cuff design work, Chris :).  So, reading the ddb man page it 
> indicates that a break signal should trigger the debugger.  This just caused 
> my local terminal to become unresponsive, but my pseudo terminal and bash 
> shell remain seemingly happy.  I'm running 1.5.3.  A fair guess that I'm 
> going to require these same patches?

Probably.  See

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2002/01/10/0009.html

for the list.  I haven't installed them yet so I can't tell you how
well they work (plus I'm using the console, not a serial terminal).

-- Derek