Bug#626427: Horrible Time Skew, Eventual Near-zero Responsiveness

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi again,

Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:

> The kernel team seem to be unable to find the cause with the info I gave
> them.  Since AFAICT I have nothing more to give them (will check later) and
> since it has been quite a long while, I think it's best the bug remain
> closed.  What's more, this old clunker is on the way out (poor thing!)
[...]
> NP.  uname -r says 3.2.0-2-686-pae.  The kernel devs said I should turn off
> ACPI, so I did.  Now, the clock is dead on to the speaking clock.  I have to
> assume it worked. :-)

Before the machine dies :), could you try a boot without "acpi=off"
and let us know how it goes (presence or absence of skew, logs, etc)?
3.2.y from sid would be fine, 3.3.y from experimental better.

Thanks,
Jonathan