On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:34:43PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: > >On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: > > > >>'k, now that I'm up to 3 6-STABLE servers that are deadlocking, I'm > >>spending time with the remote tech today to get a serial console put > >>online ... how do I drop into DDB remotely, where the serial console is > >>going through a Portmaster Terminal server? issuing CTL-ALT-ESC, I > >>doubt, will work, will it? > > > >If configured to use a serial console (console="comconsole" in > >loader.conf), you can enter the debugger with BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER in the > >kernel config by sending a serial break. With my portmasters, I telnet to > >a TCP port to connect to the serial console, so I send a telnet break, > >using ^]send break. > > Have you ever had a problem with this warning: "(useful for remote > diagnostics, but also dangerous if you generate a spurious BREAK on the > serial port!)" in the handbook? You can use ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER which uses the CR ~ ^b sequence if you are worried about stray breaks.
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