Re: Date problems on noname/potato
On Thu 02 Nov 2000, Julien Stern wrote:
> The time on my good ol' alpha machine is suddently very strange:
> It changes every second :)
Known problem when upgrading from slink to potato while still using
a 2.0 kernel. The libc interface to the kernel's time function is
somehow "different". My analysis is that it only uses the lower
16 bits or so instead of the normal 32 bits (or even 64 bits on alpha),
hence the way it jumps around somewhere at the beginning of (unix) time.
> It seemed to me that it occured when I upgraded from slink to potato,
That's what I said :-)
Install a 2.2 kernel (you may have to use one of the kernel-image
packages, building your own when the time continually jumps around
will confuse the hell out of make), and reboot; your problems will
be gone.
If you do configure your own kernel, make sure to select RTC support
else you'll be in 2018 or so (although at least time will progress
in the old and trusted manner).
Paul Slootman
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