On Saturday 11 February 2006 18:12, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 05:11:23PM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> > Dear folks,
> >
> > a small patch proposal to have ddb() switch to the console when invoked.
> > So when working on say ttyE5 and a panic occures, it'll switch to the
> > console where it prints the ddb prompt and backtrack if any.
> >
> > Avoids confusion mainly and prevents ppl. from typing in stuff and not
> > understanding why the program is not responding.
>
> I don't think this is very useful - you can still type Ctrl-Alt-1
> to switch to the console.

Just verified it today after my system panic'ed.
Ctrl+Alt+F1 did not bring me back to the console.  (And in case your
combination was not a typo, Ctrl-Alt-1 didn't either.)

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