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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: nelis@brabys.co.za
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: weird clock problem
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:58:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1084298291.3720.7.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1084282171.8334.46.camel@nelis.brabys.co.za>

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 06:29, Nelis Lamprecht wrote:
> The problem became evident while copying vast amounts of data across to
> my machine. While I was copying data to it via scp my random
> Xscreensaver kicked in displaying the clock and the first thing I
> noticed was that the clock was advancing at a rapid rate. At the same
> time I could not type anything as it would just repeat everything I
> typed 10 fold. Basically the whole system behaved like it was on
> steroids while I was copying to it and by the time I had finished
> copying the clock was 2hrs ahead of time. With kernel 2.6.5 ntpd would
> work on startup and then die saying no servers could be reached which I
> assume was because my clock was so far off.
> 
> I have since downgraded to 2.6.3 and now ntpd is keeping time as it
> should.

Are you using the ACPI PM timesource? Could you send me your dmesg and
kernel config?

thanks
-john



  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-11 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-11 13:29 Nelis Lamprecht
2004-05-11 17:58 ` john stultz [this message]
2004-05-12  7:04 ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-12  7:22   ` Nelis Lamprecht
2004-05-11 13:40 Piszcz, Justin Michael

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