Re: Ctrl-alt-delete in syscons pause/scrollback mode breaks system

On 11/6/10, Bruce Cran <bruce_at_cran.org.uk> wrote:
> Today I came back to my computer and realised I'd left ttyv0 in
> history/scrollback mode, with scroll-lock enabled. To see what
> would happen I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot and was surprised to
> see that it seemed to get partway through the process but it never
> rebooted: the other ttys were killed and I could still break into the
> debugger but otherwise the system was unresponsive.  Trying to repeat
> it after rebooting I ended up with a system that won't even break into
> the debugger. Is this expected?

Last issue, was reported my me long ago and only workaround was commited,
which actually did not solved problem for me.

I'm still looking forward for complete syscons rewrite.