From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 17 14:11:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18445 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 14:11:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (daemon@smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18418 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 14:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12859; Sun, 17 May 1998 14:11:55 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd012797; Sun May 17 14:11:46 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA00443; Sun, 17 May 1998 14:11:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805172111.OAA00443@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Serial console, system hangs and DDB... To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 21:11:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: scrappy@hub.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Julian Elischer" at May 16, 98 08:58:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > yes, that's what the BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER > option is for.. > be carefull however, > rebooting the 2nd machine can sometimes produce a preak > and drop the first into the debugger ..... > (similar for serial switches etc.) > > julian > P.S.B I've considering adding a patch that detects a phrase like > " For some reason, I didn't get this whole message after the 'quotes space'; my machine keeps dropping into the debugger every time I try to read it... (A commentary on the use of non-escaped in-band magic phrases to make things happen). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message