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Re: Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux





On 21/05/15 22:15, Bob Proulx wrote:
Iain M Conochie wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
I have today seen the news report below, and wonder whether it needs
some kind of patch for Debian Linux, and, if so, whether it has
already been done, or is pending.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679882#87
Good to see that Debian has already implemented the patches through
Debian Squeeze LTS.
To be fair, this was implemented when squeeze was still stable, as according to the below link Wheezy was officially released over 7 months after this fix

https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/


A reasonably good summary and description of the leapsecond issues
appears in the up-voted answer posted here:

   http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-during-a-leap-second

Bob
Nice one Bob. This link also points out this was an issue with the NTP server software (although it seemed in 2012 the main issue was with the kernel)


Bret

You may want to also check your version of NTP (if you are running the software). You may also want to check your version of the tzdata package if you are *not* running NTP. This should be 2015d-0+deb6u1

Iain



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