Re: System hangs

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 10:51:45 -0500, 
Manoj Ekbote <manoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Now, when I press the "Pause" key, the system hangs. At the same time,
>the Caps lock and Scroll lock lights start to blink, which means to say
>that kdb is _active_( from the documentation of kdb).
>
>Why is the kdb not being invoked?

It is being invoked.  You will find kdb messages on the serial console
(if you have one) and on the text console.  Some distributions move the
text console to another virtual console, find where the text console is
and switch there before invoking kdb.