On 2004-08-15 sd20@york.ac.uk wrote:

> a few times now when my machine feels like grumbling it throws me into
> debug (db>) - how do you get out of this?

  What is the error?  If you just accedently hit Ctrl-Alt-Esc you can type
"c" and it will continue.  For most other errors that doesn't work and you
need to reboot ("reboot" from DDB will usually work too, unless the error
is in a disk related part of the kernel.  kloader will fail more
frequently than syncing the disks.).  If you are compiling a kernel and
don't ever want to use DDB you can comment out "options DDB" in the config
file and it will dump core to swap (if available) and reboot when it
encounters an error (and the key sequence will no longer do anything
special).  See also "man ddb" for further ddb info.  Unless you are
inducing it, this should never happen and indicates a serious kernel bug.

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@city-net.com