From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 26 14:26:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10163 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:26:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10062 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:25:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) id PAA35349; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:25:48 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199901262225.PAA35349@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Any way to get machine out of hires when it breaks into DDB> ? In-Reply-To: <199901262039.MAA21275@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jan 26, 99 12:39:47 pm" To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:25:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote... > I just had a crash on my workstation. X froze up in the middle of a > redraw, and the machine unresponsive to pings from the outside. > > The thing had dropped into DDB. I really wanted to see what DDB was > trying to tell me so I could fix it, but I couldn't see it since it > was still in X. > > I knew it was in DDB because I could type 'panic' and > the machine rebooted :-) > > It sure wouuld be nice if DDB could restore the video back to VGA. > Anybody have any ideas? That sort of scenario is exactly why my primary desktop machine at home runs with a serial console. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message