From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266845AbUG1J3f (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 05:29:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266847AbUG1J3f (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 05:29:35 -0400 Received: from smtp.sys.beep.pl ([195.245.198.13]:64273 "EHLO smtp.sys.beep.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266845AbUG1J3c convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 05:29:32 -0400 From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Organization: SelfOrganizing To: Holger Kiehl Subject: Re: IPMI watchdog question Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:29:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: linux-kernel , minyard@acm.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200407281129.22431.arekm@pld-linux.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Points assigned by spam scoring system to this email. Note that message is treated as spam ONLY if X-Spam-Flag header is set to YES. If you have any report questions, see report postmaster@beep.pl for details. Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 25.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Authenticated-Id: arekm Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 28 of July 2004 11:08, Holger Kiehl wrote: > Hello > > Using kernel 2.6.7 with ipmi watchdog compiled in, I have noticed that > when the process writting to /dev/watchdog is killed (-9) the system is > not reset. When I query the BMC to list the SEL it does report: > > Watchdog 2 #0x03 | Timer expired > > So the BMC does notice that the timer did expire but no action is taken. > What must I do so it resets my system? Do you have CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT enabled? Also driver needs to be converted to honor nowayout module option, too. > Thanks, > Holger -- Arkadiusz Mi¶kiewicz CS at FoE, Wroclaw University of Technology arekm.pld-linux.org, 1024/3DB19BBD, JID: arekm.jabber.org, PLD/Linux