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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hello Guys,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve been doing some more
testing on this problem this morning and not really getting anywhere. Even when
doing a completely clean build of 0.6.0, the first thing I do after booting up
is edit the watchdog.conf to watch a pid file which doesn’t exist, the watchdog
daemon logs that it’s unable to find the pid file however the watchdog doesn’t
kick in and reboot the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We’re somewhat reliant on the
watchdog for our systems and I’m keen to solve this. We’re running on an ALIX 3d2
however I’ve tested on other ALIX boards and also with version of 0.5.2 and
still get very unreliable results.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Am I doing something wrong? What
can I do to test this further?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
voyage-linux-bounces+robert.rawlins=thinkbluemedia.co.uk@list.voyage.hk
[mailto:voyage-linux-bounces+robert.rawlins=thinkbluemedia.co.uk@list.voyage.hk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Rawlins - Think Blue<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 04 June 2009 19:55<br>
<b>To:</b> 'voyage-linux'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Voyage-linux] Watchdog Not Rebooting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Hello Guys,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’ve got a voyage 0.6.0 build running on an ALIX board,
today I replace the CF card after we had a data corruption issue. I tested this
card in other ALIX systems earlier this week and the watchdog appeared to work
great! I also know than this current board with the old CF card also had a
working watchdog.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>All I can tell you at the moment is that the daemon is
logging to /var/log/syslog like so:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Jun 4 18:48:22 voyage watchdog[3188]: still alive
after 36 interval(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Jun 4 18:48:22 voyage watchdog[3188]: was able
to ping process 3130 (/var/run/obex-data-server.pid).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Jun 4 18:48:22 voyage watchdog[3188]: was able
to ping process 3162 (/var/run/thinkblue.pid).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Jun 4 18:48:22 voyage watchdog[3188]: was able
to ping process 2911 (/var/run/dbus/pid).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Jun
4 18:48:22 voyage watchdog[3188]: was able to ping process 3011
(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Now, say I kill one of these processes, I then get a log
entry like so:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Jun 4 18:49:52 voyage watchdog[3188]: still
alive after 45 interval(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Jun 4 18:49:52 voyage watchdog[3188]: was able
to ping process 3130 (/var/run/obex-data-server.pid).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Jun
4 18:49:52 voyage watchdog[3188]: cannot open /var/run/thinkblue.pid (errno = 2
= 'No such file or directory')</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I then get no further log entries from the watchdog, however
the system does not reboot!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Can someone help me diagnose and solve the issue? I’d really
appreciate that <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span> Like I say I know
for sure that:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>A)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>The ALIX board is functional, it was working on the old
CF card.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>B)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>My /etc/watchdog.conf is just fine, it’s the same
config I use on other systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>C)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>My /init.d/watchdog is just fine, this has only been
modified to have ‘–v’ to log the output.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks chaps,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
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