From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 13:08:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4FA41065688 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:08:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclark46@earthlink.net) Received: from elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CDE58FC1E for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:08:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclark46@earthlink.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=mnBpTkui9hkbiS8reAgJhsutqG8pyTHOzJwC9WWTHMeu1d38QIu49XyLC3sMt9kJ; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [208.118.36.229] (helo=joker.seclark.com) by elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KoHjc-0005Rf-K6; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:08:48 -0400 Message-ID: <48EF53DF.4070307@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:08:47 -0400 From: Stephen Clark User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Patrick_Lamaizi=E8re?= References: <48ED04DA.8050902@earthlink.net> <20081010144035.01fc764a@baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local> In-Reply-To: <20081010144035.01fc764a@baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ELNK-Trace: a437fbc6971e80f61aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec793cb9b98b931f0bf568ea768cfea20ce4350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 208.118.36.229 Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: 6.3-p5 watchdog timer not being disabled X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sclark46@earthlink.net List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:08:49 -0000 Patrick Lamaizière wrote: > Le Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:07:06 -0400, > Stephen Clark a écrit : > >> Hello List, >> >> We have 2 different platforms that we are trying to use the watchdog >> timer and watchdogd program on. One is a Soekris 5501: >> CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (433.25-MHz 586-class >> CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x5a2 Stepping = 2 >> Features=0x88a93d >> AMD Features=0xc0400000 > >> The other is a: >> CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah+RNG (1002.28-MHz 686-class CPU) >> Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x694 Stepping = 4 >> Features=0x380b03d >> >> According to the manpage on watchdogd if is killed with either SIGTERM >> or SIGINT it is suppose to disable the watchdog timer in the kernel so >> the system won't reboot. >> >> On both of the above platforms this does not work and the platforms >> reboot when watchdogd is killed with a kill pid, >> after the timeout value (-t) that had been specified to watchdogd >> when starting it has elapsed. >> t >> Am I misunderstanding how this is suppose to work? > > No, i have tested on my net5501 on freebsd-current. It works. > > Can you try with watchdog -d -t