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Description of problem: I've seen once how the watchdog service has failed to start on boot, complaining about missing /dev/watchdog device. After restarting the service manually it started up ok, the device was present. Currently I'm unable to reproduce this but I wonder could there be a dependency/timing issue with the unit file and device creation? If this doesn't sound plausible/possible, perhaps we can conclude it was a local hickup but would be worth checking. Thanks.
If you have an IPMI watchdog and use OpenIPMI and have IPMI_WATCHDOG=yes in /etc/sysconfig/ipmi then you probably ran into Bug 1133135 If you have another kind of HW watchdog (as per wd_identify ) or like me you do not use OpenIPMI (I'm currently using ipmitool), then you want to ensure the kernel module for your watchdog timer is loaded before you start watchdog.service I do this by having /etc/modules-load.d/ipmi_watchdog.conf with the line ipmi_watchdog
moving to 7.8
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