watchdogd panic when shutdown -p

[Vivek Khera]

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.