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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09!wzv!guido From: guido@wzv.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: An easy way to generate trap 12 [386bsd] Message-ID: <3864@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: 15 Sep 92 20:35:13 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 16 I discovered a faitly simple way to have my system rebooted. I am planning to solve it, but if anyone else alreday did that, please let him/her say so. I don't know if this only happens at my machine, but i dont think so. However if you have the same problem, could you please give me an email? The problem: just logon on the console using sh or csh. press a few keys followed by a tab. e.g: $ bras<tab> and now hit the backspace several times, untill you "hit" the prompt. If you press it again, you see some dirty characters appearing, most of the time followed by a trap and a reboot. I think the failure is inside pccons.c that seems to generate a ctrl-R when it is unnecessary. -Guido