on 21/08/2010 23:33 Stefan Bethke said the following:> Hi,
>
> somewhat foolishly, I activated watchdogd and ichwd on a remote box, and
> while testing it (by suspending watchdogd), apparently the watchdog
> triggered. But instead of resetting, the machine does not react anymore on
> the serial console. I will have to wait until Monday to get physical
access,
> so it might be hanging or just switched itself off; I have no way of
telling
> right now.
>
> ichwd probes as: ichwd0: <Intel ICH7 watchdog timer> on isa0 ichwd0:
Intel
> ICH7 watchdog timer (ICH7 or equivalent) ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port
range
>
> (not sure why ppc0 is getting involved at that point.)
>
> FreeBSD lokschuppen.zs64.net 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #30: Thu
> Jul 15 12:58:20 UTC 2010
> root@lokschuppen.zs64.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EISENBOOT amd64
>
> Once the box is up again, is it worthwile trying ichwd again, should I try
> and use SW_WATCHDOG, or forget about it?
Just test it more while having physical access before making any conclusions.
There could be a number of radically different possibilities ranging from
hardware peculiarities to configuration problems to pilot errors to etc.
--
Andriy Gapon