[maemo-developers] N810 Resets

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Alex Iliadis wrote:
> I suspected it was the watchdog which was doing software resets. Here is 
> the output of the results:
> 
> /proc/bootreason
> 32wd_to
> 
> 32wd_to: 
> 5
...

> After that I decided to disable the lifeguard resets in the device by using 
> the flasher tool:
> flasher --set-rd-flags=no-lifeguard-reset -R

32wd_to is the device HW watchdog reboot, not the SW watchdog one.


> (side note: the device was in r&d mode in both runs)
> 
> Unfortunately I ended up having the same exact result, the device rebooted 
> while running my python script. I also enabled core files to see if it was 
> an application crashing but that didn't turn out to be the case since 
> there were no core's generated. Furthermore I installed sysklogd to see if 
> there will be any time to save error messages prior the reset but nothing 
> useful was in the logs. I would appreciate any pointers on debugging this 
> issue.

Are you running your script as root?  And if yes, how much memory
it's using?  (root processes are protected from OOM-killing i.e.
like on any Linux device, root can mess the system)



	- Eero