On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 03:40:22PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > worse, if the module is loaded with the "nowayout=1" - the machine then > > gets hard-reset "timeout" seconds later! > > The watchdog device cannot be closed if it was not successfully opened. > This is a problem with the watchdog daemon.
Ben, would you mind giving us a little bit more of information as to why you think this is a bug in the daemon? I agree that the device cannot be closed if it wasn't successfully opened. But this does not explain why the device cannot be opened. Also if the device was somehow opened the system would be hard resetted no matter if nowayout was set or not. If nowayout has an effect on the reset the device indeed is closed. Tim, is there any other software running that accesses /dev/watchdog? What happens if you not start watchdog in the boot process but instead start it manually once the system is completely booted? Michael Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo/Skype: michaelmeskes, Jabber: mes...@jabber.org VfL Borussia! Forca Barca! Go SF 49ers! Use: Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
