Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 21:11:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what causes a userland to stop, but allows kernel to continue ? Message-ID: <20020505210947.N57177-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <B8FB3F7F.CB0A%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
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On Sun, 5 May 2002, Ian wrote: > "break into" how? He said the local console keyboard was totally > unresponsive and you can't ssh in. If hitting the capslock key doesn't > cause the corresponding LED to toggle, doesn't that imply that the keyboard > interupts aren't getting handled? > > It's times like this when it's handy that old Macs had a physical button on > front to create an NMI to get you into the debugger. > > -- Ian Just because caps lock isn't working doesn't mean that he won't be able to break into DDB w/ ctrl-alt-esc. Remember that getty is a process like any other, and that caps lock is a per-tty property, not a keyboard function. DDB hooks into the keyboard at a lower level, and should still work. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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