Clock Problem - UDB + Unstable
I just "upgraded" my UDB from Stable to Unstable, and this seems to have
introduced a fairly serious date problem.
XFree86 is the most visible participant in this; it appears to continually
throw the system into 'screen saver' mode, and when I get a session
running (e.g. - getting past xdm), it runs for a short time and hangs.
(S3 968, by the way...)
date > out
date >> out
date >> out
date >> out
gives:
Sun Jan 4 14:22:07 CST 1970
Mon Jan 5 16:31:09 CST 1970
Sat Jan 3 06:41:38 CST 1970
Sat Jan 3 02:58:15 CST 1970
despite the fact that
hwclock --show
displays:
Tue Sep 28 06:00:08 1999 1802386.625000 seconds
# echo dmpeers | xntpdc
leads to:
remote local st poll reach delay offset disp
=======================================================================
knuth.brownes.o 192.168.1.1 5 64 7 0.00076 0.003261 3.88367
godel.brownes.o 192.168.1.1 4 64 7 -0.0019 0.008767 3.88164
Other notables:
- I'm running ARC, not SRM
- ARC seems to report an appropriate time...
All that seems to be messed up is the system clock, as opposed to the
hardware clock. (That's quite bad enough, of course.)
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