On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:46:23PM +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote:
> Not sure if that means anything, but to me it sounds like an
> obsolete mechanism is used somewhere.

Partly right. :)

I don't like touching these during freeze, though.

> I don't know what the intended behavior for /etc/default/watchdog
> is now. The changelog states:
> ...
> And the file is recreated on package installation.

Right, this is the intended behaviour. The file should be there.

> 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.

Ok, good.

> Is restarting watchdog with wd_keepalive as a temporary
> replacement not supported?

It is, but starting one service while stopping another is not really
supported by systemd, sigh! So I went with a workaround/hack to get things
working, but apparently they don't for restart.

> PS: Sorry for not testing the reboot now, it's my desktop system
> and I have too many windows open at the moment.

No worries, you found the problem without rebooting anyway.

Michael
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