[Voyage-linux] Broken watchdog?

[Robert Rawlins]

Guys,

 

My watchdog doesn't appear to be working quite correctly and I'm hoping you
can help me out. I have it watching a process for me to ensure its still
alive and I can see it logging this check in syslog like so:

 

Sep 10 08:50:11 voyage watchdog[3351]: still alive after 5661 interval(s)

Sep 10 08:50:11 voyage watchdog[3351]: was able to ping process 3250
(/var/run/myapp.pid).

Sep 10 08:50:26 voyage watchdog[3351]: still alive after 5662 interval(s)

Sep 10 08:50:26 voyage watchdog[3351]: pinging process 3250
(/var/run/myapp.pid) gave errno = 3 = 'No such process'

 

As you can see, it knows it cannot ping my process as it has crashed, yet
the system doesn't appear to reboot itself. It just sits there like a dead
duck J

 

I'm sure this was working in the past but cannot be sure. This is using
Voyage 0.5 on an ALIX board.

 

I'd really appreciate some advice on this and how to debug if this is an
issue.

 

Robert

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