Hi Michael, here are my results from purging and reinstalling watchdog.
There are some messages during the installation: /run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Not sure if that means anything, but to me it sounds like an obsolete mechanism is used somewhere. I don't know what the intended behavior for /etc/default/watchdog is now. The changelog states: Changed rules file to make sure default file doesn't come back. But the package installation still references /etc/default/watchdog: Configuring watchdog Please specify whether stopping watchdog should start wd_keepalive to keep on triggering the watchdog device. This can be changed later by editing /etc/default/watchdog. Start wd_keepalive after stopping watchdog? And the file is recreated on package installation. At least the package database is cleaned up as expected by purging and reinstalling watchdog. I also have found out what causes systemctl restart watchdog to fail. When I disable run_wd_keepalive in /etc/default/watchdog anything works as expected (at least as far as I can see). But when I enable run_wd_keepalive the restart fails as reported before. Is restarting watchdog with wd_keepalive as a temporary replacement not supported? Regards Uwe PS: Sorry for not testing the reboot now, it's my desktop system and I have too many windows open at the moment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
