The continued remote debugging saga...

[Doug Rabson]

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 18:15, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Rob Deker wrote this message on Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:38 -0400:
> > So, after a lot of work and help from folks here, I've gotten
> > remote gdb functioning (thanks again to those who helped. In the
> > end there was a bad cable in the mix that was the final screw-up).
> > Now I have one other question/problem. I've got cuaa0 on the target
> > machine as the console, and cuaa1 as the gdb port. In the docs it
> > says that to switch to gdb mode I enter 'gdb'  at the ddb prompt.
> > No problem. It also says that typing 'gdb' again will take me back
> > to ddb. What it doesn't say is where to enter it. I've tried in gdb
> > (no success) and on the console (also no success). What am I
> > missing on how to switch back to ddb mode?  Alternately, if I can
> > just cause the machine to reset from gdb, that would work. I've
> > tried the following from gdb:
>
> If you are able to be at a command line, you could try:
> sysctl debug.kdb.current=ddb

You used to be able to use GDB's detach command to switch back.