Re: hard crash on leap second

[Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com>]

Yannick Patois wrote the following on 01/01/2009 06:09 PM:
> Hi,
>
> Travis Crump wrote:
> > I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was
> > added.  While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash
> > before.  I have no other evidence they were related, but I wasn't doing
> > anything unusual at the time.  Any ideas?
>
> Same behavior here.
>
> My machine also crashed precisely at 0:59:59 - french time - (screen
> froze, KDE bar displaying this time).
>
> My current kernel is:
> Linux 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 15 18:15:07 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> This is an average 32 bits sempron 2600 machine.
>
> I would be very interested to understand what's happened. I don't think
> it's a coincidence, I've seen several other mention of such a crash
> (with Debian) on the web today.
>
> Yannick

Well, just for another data point, I have 6 machines running 
lenny at various levels of being up-to-date and none of them 
crashed.

I am running ntp 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-7 according to aptitude. My 
firewall is a stratum 2 timeserver and all the other 
machines get their time from it.

Dennis