Is xserver-xorg-video-glamo freezy for anyone else than just me?

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi
Mon Apr 19 13:23:11 CEST 2010


Al Johnson <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Watchdog hardware usually works by causing a reset if it doesn't get poked in 
> a given time interval. Since there's a kernel driver involved I assume that's 
> the case here. If the freeze, be it kernel or user space, stops the watchdog 
> being poked then you get a restart. You may be seeing the kernel continue 
> while the glamo freezes. Or I may be making the wrong assumptions about how 
> this watchdog works ;-)

Yes you need to configure the userland watchdog to do something
useful. Like check that you have no processes in disk sleep (D) state
and that SSH server is running etc.

-Timo





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