Re: wonky time when upgrading to potato
On Tue 01 Aug 2000, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >
> This "... time seemed to jump around randomly..." is exactly what I have
> seen, for example, on UP1000 with a kernel compiled without RTC support.
> If you will read with hwclock in a loop some of returned values will
> be correct and some will jump around. How often one or another seems
You snipped out the part where I wrote that the system time is set *once*
at boot time from the HW clock. You're describing a situation where the
HW clock is read out in a loop. I can hardly imagine that the original
poster did that.
See also the threads starting at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha-9908/msg00056.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha-9909/msg00015.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha-9909/msg00158.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha-9911/msg00025.html
etc.
In other words, it's a known problem with potato libs and a 2.0
kernel on _any_ type of alpha. Period.
Paul Slootman
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