Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:21:18 +0100 (MET) | From | Paul Wouters <> | Subject | Does anyone see successful watchdog reboots? |
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I've recently had a few nasty crashes which resulted in the machine hanging indefinetly. I do have the software watchdog enabled and I'm running Watchdog on it (I used to use loaddog, but switched to watchdog)
My last crash, using 2.0.27 happened while i was reading mail with pine. I got messages with: fork: try again. Any command would fail to fork, and i wasn't logged in as root. I waited a couple of minutes but watchdog (which I am assuming couldn't fork either) didn't do a cold reboot. In the past, we've had some problems with our ncr53c810, so I think (though the logs dont show any trace of anything) that was the cause this time as well (It didn't recover e2fscking our /tmp partition, and I had to use a boot/root disk to e2fsck it manually before our server would boot again). If the scsi bus is totally locked up, will the kernel watchdog routines still be effective? I can imagine it can't check the /dev/watchdog device anymore, which is on a scsi disk.
Paul
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