watchdogd panic when shutdown -p

[Vivek Khera]

On Jan 24, 2005, at 3:11 AM, Emanuel Strobl wrote:

> kernel will reset the machine. Best would be if I never see watchdog in
> action but I'm seeing a panic message after some interrupt statistics 
> (see
> below) and the machine doesn't power off (like it does without 
> watchdogd
> enabled).
>

Interesting... Can you compare your experience with mine as described 
in PR 71800?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71800

I hadn't attributed this to the watchdog.  I'll try that, but I have 
two boxes with watchdog enabled (FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.2.1) which don't 
exhibit any failure to shutdown, and I have two boxes with 5.3 that do 
exhibit (one ever since 5.3 BETA) the kernel IRQ messages on any type 
of shutdown.  All have the watchdog on.


Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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