7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat Jan 10 06:51:47 PST 2009


Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet at esiee.fr> writes:

> I've installed 7.1 onto our mail exchager (MX) then it suddendly stopped
> to work last night with the following message
>
> watchdog bge0 timeout
>
>
> The machine is a HP pc which was doing the same service at 6.3 without
> that kind of trouble

Could be hardware trouble, I suppose.

The whole point of a watchdog is to let the driver recover after the
hardware has locked up.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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