Re: Query about possible impact of leap second on Debian Linux
On 22/05/2015, Iain M Conochie <iain@thargoid.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
Hello.
Thank you for that, Iain.
Due to some of my web browsers not having the capability to save
sessions, and with them having multiple windows open, and with kernel
updates requiring a system reboot, each time, this system has not been
updated for a little while, so, upon checking (using Synaptic) the
tzdata package(s), and finding they needed updating, apparently
without depending on the kernel update(s), I have now updated the
tzdata packages. There are tzdata and tzdata-java, both of which had
updates available.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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