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Re: KDB vs. X

To: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: KDB vs. X
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 08:31:30 -0500
Cc: Alan Eldridge <alane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: Message from Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> of "Thu, 05 Jul 2001 17:03:04 +1000." <30829.994316584@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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