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Re: Serious clock problem



Steve Reilly wrote:
> FTALOVER wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm running VMW ESXi 3i (3.5.0) on an 4 CPUs DELL Poweredge 1950.  This
>> machine is  hosting 8 virtual machines, 5 running Etch and 3 running
>> Lenny. All guests were running fine until I upgraded the kernel to
>> linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-19 in the 3 boxes running Lenny.  Now
>> those boxes are repeatedly freezing because the system clock seems to
>> stall. Forcing the kernel to use acpi_pm as clocksource instead of TSC
>> and disabling TSC doesn't seems to help. So, does anybody have any
>> suggestion  on how to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Eric L.
>>
>>

Did you not take a snapshot before the upgrade?? One of the biggest +'s
about ESXi is befor you do anything, take a snapshot to roll back to...

>>
> boot back to the old kernel and delete the new one?   restore a backup?
>  just curious....why are you installing something other than a security
> update on a server?
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