I've recently been having problems with my Nokia 770 going into a reboot loop. After some research (along with personal past experience as a Linux distro creator and UNIX sys admin), I've become convinced it has to do with the watchdogs not being "tickled" in time.

That is, the watchdog thinks things are hung when in fact they are just taking a long time. I've begun investigating the startup processes and running daemons in order to remove some that perhaps take too long - I've removed clickc and no longer have privoxy run automatically on boot.

I also have samba-common et al (but not samba, just smbfs), as well as rsync and others. But they don't seem to have daemons running (or do they?) sshd (openssh) is another daemon starting up at start.

Is there a way to set the time interval of the watchdog timers? Having used the Linux /dev/watchdog timer, there should be... right?

Or should I take this question to the Developer's Forum?

PS: After removing privoxy (at startup), things seem to be running better...

PPS: I loaded syslog in order to see what was happening - didn't seem to see anything of use there. I might remove it later.