CentOS - May 2008 - Hourly restart

Anything in the bios called watchdog turned on?

Hi,

Without any update, hardware/software modification, etc... one of my
systems "Hourly restart" problem started again. Currently, I counted 5
restarts at 59th minute. No log entry, no console error, nothing
really interesting. If I do not see camera records with my own eyes,
I'll suspect about someone from D.C. hardreseting the box.

Now, I guess /var failed mounting and ssh not available. Maybe next
hour restart does a magic...

Last time, a kernel update solved hourly restart problem. Before
loosing access, I checked and saw a new kernel with -21 ending number
(x86_64, forgot to mention) and waiting for XFS module to be ready
(Well, I wish I had left it ext3) After that, perhaps update will
solve the problem again, but why?

Last time I stopped all crons, unneeded services, remote access, etc..
Put a man in front of the monitor and made him monitor everything.
Only thing he saw was a welcoming BIOS without any sign at the 60th
minute. Replaced power cords, power supply, some disks, RAM modules,
etc... Currently I have the last recovered remote logs of temperature
and voltage sensors of the system, all seems fine, nothing suspicious.

I am out of ideas. I have many gentoo boxes on the almost same
hardware and a few centos boxes. Only this one failes continuously...

I'd like to hear advice and suggestions about how to debug / repair
this situation.

Thanks.

P.S.: Complete hardware replacement plan is currently in action, new
hardware will be ready soon but I'm not so sure about hardware
failure. Why did it stopped last time after a simple kernel update?

To be honest I have no idea what is needed by the kernel for the bios to beable
to check that the os is responding correctly. I enabled it on a test server and
had the same issue on a default 4.6 cent install. I could have the name in the
bios (the service ) incorrect ie, watch guard,watch dog , watch
"something" I know it is psent on serval types of motherboad
manufactures. Take a look should be  easy to find

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Gregg McClintic <gregg at thegbox.com>
wrote:
> Anything in the bios called watchdog turned on?
Waiting for morning (it's late night here) for further diag.

Should I disable it? Or is it malfunctioning because of CentOS?

Thanks...