On some systems, watchdog not starting at boot can lead to infinite system reset loops.
Better behaved hardware watchdogs starts the counter on first open/write to /dev/watchdog and thus not starting on boot is not fatal, but will cause system lockups to go undetected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1448924 Title: watchdogd doesn't start on boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/watchdog/+bug/1448924/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
