On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:08:00PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > My HP Proliant server rebooted tonight for no apparent reason, after > weeks or months of uptime. After that it started rebooting during the > boot sequence at around the same point (shortly after going multiuser, I > think). I tracked it to the watchdog daemon. Disabling it fixed the > issue. Restarting the watchdog causes a reboot within seconds. Also, > stopping the watchdog service without having disabled it (thus starting > wd_keepalive) also reboots the system.
You mean that it reboots although watchdog is up and running? > I didn't see any watchdog-related error messages in the syslog, but then > I didn't have verbose mode enabled. Could you please try with verbose on and send me the log entries? This sounds kind of strange as if the kernel wasn't accepting the writes watchdog does or as if watchdog wasn't writing at all. 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
