On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:35:13 -0400
Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:12:57 -0600
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > When rebooting I get the message : [429.0649464] watchdog
> > watchdog0: watchdog did not stop !
>
> Odd. Watchdog shouldn't be enabled by default. Did you configure it
> any?
I've gotten that every time I rebooted for a long time, going
back to at least f18 I think. It never seems to hurt anything
other than maybe taking an extra second or so at the end of
the reboot sequence.
Huh. I see it here too, so I did a bit of digging.
it's actually systemd. It fires up the kernel watchdog and sets a
10minute timeout. Then it does some more things. If any of them hang,
10min later the watchdog reboots your machine instead of it hanging
forever.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1372562#p1372562
seems to be a good summary. ;)
You learn something every day (if you are lucky).
kevin