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Date:      Sat, 7 Sep 2002 09:47:26 +0200
From:      Christian Zander <zander@minion.de>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: interrupting the remote kernel
Message-ID:  <20020907094726.K652@chronos>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209061711150.5707-100000@root.org>
References:  <20020906220033.A1830@gicco.cablecom.ch> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209061711150.5707-100000@root.org>

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On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:17:07PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> > But I want to be able to pass control to the debugger when
> > the target kernel `hangs', that is when no `ctl-alt-f1',
> > `ctl-alt-del' has any effect.
> 
> If the hang is not a system hang, the console break will have
> an effect. But if the kernel is so hung that the keyboard
> doesn't work, the remote serial console will not do you any
> better. In this case you need a box with a real console (i.e.
> Sun).
> 

What I found to work well is remote GDB debugging with the UDP
wrapper (ip-gdb), it responds to CTRL-C as expected.

-- 
christian zander
zander@minion.de

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