How to activate gnome-watchdog

[Todd O'Bryan]

Thanks. I downloaded version 0.9.2 from Jordan's site and it seems to
work with Hardy. 0.9 wasn't, but I didn't investigate exactly why. I'm
just happy I don't have to slay students when their clients lock up
anymore.

I also relented and ordered 30 512MB chips and now students aren't
getting lock-ups anymore. On the one hand, it's a shame I couldn't
figure out how to get the 128MB clients working. On the other hand, I
got them for about $16/client including shipping, so it didn't
increase the cost of the clients by too much.

On a related note, anybody want to buy 30 128MB PC2700 chips? :-)
(The clients only have a single slot.)

Todd

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Asmo Koskinen <asmo.koskinen at arkki.info> wrote:
> Todd O'Bryan kirjoitti:
>>
>> I recently installed Philipp Hanselmann's gnome-watchdog package on my
>> server (which is Hardy), but it doesn't seem to have taken effect. Do I need
>> to do anything special to get it started?
>
> You should see something like this.
>
> more /var/log/syslog | grep watchdog
>
> Sep 15 08:16:30 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:(5) Process gnome-panel isn't
> existing anymore for USER3
> Sep 15 08:16:33 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:(4) Process gnome-panel isn't
> existing anymore for USER3
> Sep 15 08:16:36 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:(3) Process gnome-panel isn't
> existing anymore for USER3
> Sep 15 08:16:39 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:(2) Process gnome-panel isn't
> existing anymore for USER3
> Sep 15 08:16:42 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:(1) Process gnome-panel isn't
> existing anymore for USER3
> Sep 15 08:16:42 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:test
> Sep 15 08:16:42 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:cleanup USER3 because there
> is no gnome-panel for this user existing ...
> Sep 15 08:16:42 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:Still these processes are
> active: 11888,31869,32052,32122
> Sep 15 08:16:42 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:wait 5 seconds before killing
> them, but don't kill own process (31869).
> Sep 15 08:16:47 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:Process gconfd-2 (11888)
> killed
> Sep 15 08:16:47 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:Process bonobo-activati
> (32052) killed
> Sep 15 08:16:47 srvltsp logger: gnome-watchdog:Process evolution-data-
> (32122) killed
>
> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
>