Hello there, I've just installed sarge (testing) on a new Fujitsu-Siemens R610 Dual Xeon workstation, but it took me quite a while to find out why the machine would power cycle every two minutes *only* when running under a 2.6 kernel (kernel-image 2.6.6-1-686-smp). No problems with a 2.4 kernel.
I finally discovered it was the i810 watchdog timer on the motherboard, that I hadn't been aware of previously. When the watchdog module was loaded it probably started the timer and since there was no program that wrote to /dev/watchdog the system would hard reset a minute later. The module probably doesn't exist in the 2.4 kernel. Installing the watchdog package didn't help. In addition I had to edit the config file /etc/watchdog.conf and uncomment the line "watchdog-device". After that the system was stable. I still think there's something wrong with the way the watchdog driver and daemon work, though. Why does the timer get started even though there's no watchdog daemon writing to the /dev/watchdog device? I'm not even sure the i8xx_tco module started the timer, though on startup it would print this message: i8xx TCO timer: initialized (0x1060). heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) cheers, Hendrik -- Hendrik Fuß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Ulster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
