kern/119890: debuggin pidgin with gdb causes kernel crash

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 25 23:59:30 UTC 2008


tadokoro wrote:
> At Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:10:48 +0100,
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>  From the sound of your email you did not have DDB configured at that 
>> time?  What happens when you try to break using the DDB break key 
>> sequence (ctrl + shift + esc I think)?
> 
> sorry for my poor explanation.
> 
> 1) build kernel with DDB and boot with the kernel
> at this time, Esc + Alt + Ctrl breaks into kdb.
> 
> on the console
> 2) export DISPLAY=foreign:0            # pidgin requires X server
> 3) gdb pidgin 
> 4) and "run" command of gdb
> 
> and
> After "kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled" message appeared on the console,
> nothing happened, any keys (including Esc + Alt + Ctrl) were ignored.

OK, I don't know why this would be happening, sorry.

Kris


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