How to activate gnome-watchdog

[Jordan Erickson]

It looks like I found somewhat of an issue with gnome-watchdog-0.9.2 - 
in checking up on one of the servers that it's been on since 9/9, I see 
some stale processes still, and looks like it's got a few of these 
pertaining to the users of the stale processes:


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# ps aux|grep sleep
9-00130  32698  0.0  0.0   3068   724 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
9-00280  32701  0.0  0.0   3068   724 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
s1       32705  0.0  0.0   3068   724 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
s20      32708  0.0  0.0   3068   728 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
s9       32711  0.0  0.0   3068   724 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
s27      32720  0.0  0.0   3068   728 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
9-03969  32721  0.0  0.0   3068   728 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
s3       32728  0.0  0.0   3068   728 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
9-03214  32734  0.0  0.0   3068   724 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
s24      32737  0.0  0.0   3068   728 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
s12      32742  0.0  0.0   3068   728 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
s8       32743  0.0  0.0   3068   724 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
labtech  32749  0.0  0.0   3068   724 ?        S    10:18   0:00 sleep 3
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So somehow, it's not catching everyone. Any ideas? The gnome-watchdog is 
just a script:

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# file /usr/share/gnome-watchdog/gnome-watchdog
/usr/share/gnome-watchdog/gnome-watchdog: Bourne-Again shell script text 
executable
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Any help or troubleshooting guidance appreciated. Thanks!

- Jordan


Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>     
>
>