[Linux-HA] watchdog bug

[Andrew Beekhof]

It may go back even further. I seem to recall my early
experimental clusters doing this, possibly with 0.4something on RedHat? 
Anyway, not having RTFM I just assumed it was the normal behaviour at
the time.

Andrew

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:32:59 +0100
Mueller Armin ICM IT SAS IFR 2 <mueller.armin at siemens.com> wrote:

> >Hi,
> 
> >At first glance, it looks like 1.2.0 et al have watchdog directive
> >bugs in them.
> 
> >Shutting down heartbeat gracefully *does* result in the machine
> >rebooting when watchdog is enabled.
> 
> >This is with a softdog driver which (on reading the source) looks
> >right to me, and IMHO, shouldn't be shutting us down, if we're doing
> >the RightThing in heartbeat.
> 
> >I suspect we're either not handling the device close quite right, or
> >we're not closing file descriptors in child processes.
> 
> 
> >-- 
> >     Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> at least for the version 1.0.2, I can confirm this bug. Obviously it
> survived until now. For this reason I didn't used softdog even though
> it's a useful feature.
> 
> Armin
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