Long ago, On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:48:01PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi > > I have a strange problem here: the system clock of my server keeps > changing. > > The following is from the output of 'date' run from the same shell about > 1 second apart: > > 12:13:37 > 13:25:08 > 12:13:34 > > As you can see, the clock occasionally loops back (it keeps in the range > 12:13:34-38) and occasionally decides to move about 72 minutes forward. > > I have already eliminated (that is: killed) ntpd . 'ps auxww |grep ntp' > shows nothing. > > Obviously anything that assumes a steady system clock misbehaves. > > Any idea what else may play with the system clock? > > Kernel is 2.6.8-2-686 (14), the current Debian-sarge kernel.
For future reference: I just got a word today of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284477 Seems to be an ACPI-related bug. It seems that disabling X86_UP_IOAPIC should help. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
