Re: wonky time when upgrading to potato
On Sun 30 Jul 2000, Nick Matthews wrote:
> I have two AlphaStation 200 4/166 machines, which I currently have slink
> installed on. When I first installed them however, I tried to upgrade them
> to potato, but then the time went all wonky. hwclock returned the correct
> time, but every other program turned up all sorts of interesting answers
> for the time. The time seemed to jump around randomly, showing no consistency.
Yes, a known problem; you *MUST* !!! upgrade to a 2.2 kernel *BEFORE*
starting the debian upgrade from slink to potato.
> Is there any particular reason why potato would behave differently than
> slink?
There's something "wonky" about the handling of the time value,
although it's not been followed up on. Probably that the potato
libc stuff expects a 64-bit value, and 2.0 kernels only return
32 bits. Or vice versa.
Paul Slootman
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