Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu!kam@cs.utexas.edu (Katherine Minister Hosch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: watchdog reset Message-ID: <718@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 31 Jul 89 18:56:11 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 25 Keywords: Hardware Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 91, message 16 of 16 Howdy all. This has happened twice now, and I'm starting to get a little worried. We have a standalone 4/260 that crashed the other day, leaving only the message (on the console): > watchdog reset I rebooted, and ran fsck, but it didn't seem to have any big problems. Today it crashed again, with the same console message. The messages file didn't contain anything the first time, but the second time there was a message from two days ago about a memory failure: Jul 29 13:48:41 mars vmunix: mem3: soft ecc addr 4ce550 syn 5b41 U1841 Somehow I suspect that the message is unrelated to the reset though. My question is this: what *causes* a 'watchdog reset', other than pushing the 'reset' button on the back of the machine? In neither case was the button pushed. This sounds like a bad problem to me; does anyone have any ideas about it? Katherine Minister Hosch: kam@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu Applied Research Laboratories (512)-835-3148 University of Texas at Austin P.O. Box 8029, Austin, TX 78713-8029