Re: Mysterious lockups

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

Donald Lee <MacPPC2%c.icompute.com@localhost> wrote:
> At 5:22 PM +0000 3/30/13, Valery Ushakov wrote:
>
>>Next time it hangs you can break into DDB from console and check with
>>ps (ddb command, not ordinary command; see ddb(4)).  I've seen such
>>lockup once on my newly installed mini g4 when I was copying over
>>several cvs trees from the old machine.
> 
> Console does not respond (aside from the first CR, sometimes).
> I don't think I can use ddb.  I'll read the man page......  Thanks

Press Ctrl-Alt-Esc on the console keyboard to break into ddb.  It
should work on tstiled machine even when normal console input isn't.
IIRC, NetBSD 6 should have the necessary fixes for USB keyboard to be
usable with ddb.

-uwe