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From: "Roland" <devzero@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Clock has stopped (time/date looping over 5 secon
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 23:47:17 +0200
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> It _appears_ that there is a race in the kernel that can be triggered by
> any number of hardware issues. There's another thread by Gregory Stark
> with the same symptoms - he thinks his was fixed by replacing a bad
> DIMM.

i`d like to mention that we may have a repro-case (if it`s the same issue i 
hit within vmware):

see http://communities.vmware.com/message/909403

regards
roland