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Date:      Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:21:01 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: watchdogd panic when shutdown -p
Message-ID:  <61570cf864c7224268e103baab780fcf@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <826E7D69-6E39-11D9-802F-000A9578CFCC@khera.org>
References:  <200501240911.31608.emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> <E7912ED6-6E35-11D9-802F-000A9578CFCC@khera.org> <200501241944.13307.emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> <826E7D69-6E39-11D9-802F-000A9578CFCC@khera.org>

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On Jan 24, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Vivek Khera wrote:

>
> On Jan 24, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
>
>> Maybe Sean Kelly can tell us how SW_WATCHDOG interacts with ACPI, 
>> since I
>> think the problem occurs when the kernel disables ACPI, right? (just 
>> my
>> "feeling")
>>
>
> Next chance I get I'll play with the SW_WATCHDOG and see if that stops 
> the problem on my boxes.  Out of sheer luck, the two that have the 
> problem are at my office, and the two that do not are at my co-lo.  
> None of the dozen 4.x boxes ever fail to reboot at the co-lo, either, 
> the once or twice a year I upgrade them.
>

Verified on one machine that removing SW_WATCHDOG from kernel config 
gets rid of the endless interrupt errors on reboot.  Other machine is 
primary office server, so will take some coordination to test this.



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