Comment 0 for bug 1498133

upstart-watchdog reboots the phone if a process is restarting repeatedly.
In a situation where apport is disabled (which is the proposed situation on retail devices), a process which encounters a problem it may restart repeatedly, causing watchdog to reboot the phone. If the situation hasn't changed then the next time the phone starts the same issue could happen.

I had this (bug 1498080) where a process - mediascanner - was crashing.
My phone was then stuck in a boot loop with watchdog rebooting due to repeated mediascanner crashes.

We should probably re-think this.