Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 05:26:15PM +0000, sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
> 
>>Would this problem also affect the way CTRL-C terminates a program?
> 
> 
> No, that is probably unrelated.
> 
> Martin
> 
I think it is related :-) I followed your advice and rebuilt kernel with 
the following lines commented out

## Sun FFB
#ffb*           at mainbus0
#wsdisplay*     at ffb?

# On board vga on U5/U10 etc.
#machfb*                at pci?
#wsdisplay*     at machfb?

So the console and keyboard work now, and if I log in via ssh and run 
'vmstat 1' and then press CTRL-C it does kill the application

I've noticed another thing with current kernel/userland:

/usr/bin/file does not seem to understand some fields of an ELF binary

$ file /bin/cp
/bin/cp: data, for NetBSD 2.99.16, dynamically linked (uses shared 
libs), not stripped