> On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 02:46:32 -0400,
> Alan Eldridge <alane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >So, Keith, once I've got myself into the state mentioned above - kernel is
> >halted in KDB, console is in X, frozen - how can I possibly get control of
> >the system again w/o hitting the Big Red Switch?
>
> Blind typing go and enter should work. kdb reads raw scancodes so the
> X input mappings should not matter. On my TODO list is "make the pause
> key exit kdb as well as enter it" so pressing pause again will do a
> clean continue.
Typing go does work from within X should you happen to drop into kdb by
mistake. Keith, the really nice trick would be virtual console switching from
within kdb so if I crash while X is on the screen I could at least go
see what happened.
Steve
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