Re: [Astlinux-users] APU2 keeps locking up

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

Thanks Lonnie I will set it up.

Is there any way I can test it? I’m interested in whether Zabbix picks it up e.g. it tells me when a system has been rebooted.

Regards
Michael Knill

Sent from my iPhone so please excuse my brevity. 

> On 20 Sep 2020, at 1:08 am, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> wrote:
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>> On Sep 18, 2020, at 11:19 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there any way I can reboot Astlinux on a kernel panic?
>> Would also be good to be notified as well.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Michael Knill
> 
> Yes, in your user.conf you can add ...
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> KERNEL_SYSCTL="kernel.panic=3"
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> 
> which will try to reboot after 3 seconds following a kernel panic.
> 
> But, this does not always work if it locked-up tight.
> 
> Another approach is to set WDMODULE to a hardware watchdog module or the generic "softdog" module.  Some say the "sp5100_tco" should work on the APU2.
> 
> After a little testing on my APU2
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> WDMODULE="sp5100_tco"
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> works on the newer 4.19.x kernel in AstLinux 1.4-pre-release, but not for AstLinux 1.3.10 and older
> 
> for AstLinux 1.3.10 and older, you can try
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> WDMODULE="softdog"
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> 
> 
> Lonnie
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