On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 14:48 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > I've got a Fedora 7 (x86) system that started exhibiting truly bizarre > behavior about a week ago. Basically, the clock stopped working. If > I run 'date' it shows the date/time from a few days earlier, and it > *never* changes. If I touch a file, it has the date/timestamp from > the time/date in date output. The odd thing is that this behavior > only happens when the system sits relatively idle for a long chunk of > time (at least 24 hours). If i'm actively using it every day, then > its fine. If I reboot, then the problem goes away (and the system has > the correct time after rebooting). > > The first time that this happened was last weekend (Aug 18), and I had > to reboot it last Monday (Aug 20) to fix the problem. Its now > happened again. At this moment in time, date claims that its Sat Aug > 25, even though its actually Sun Aug 26 right now. > > To make matters worse, the system behaves oddly when this problem > occurs. I suspect its because anything that relies on getting an > accurate (or changing) clock is failing. If I attempt to reboot > cleanly, it just never happens. The system acts frozen in time. > > I've checked dmesg & messages, and there's nothing there. messages > just stops logging anything around the time that the clock appears to > have frozen. > > Anyone ever seen this bizarre behavior, or have any ideas what might > be going on? > If the clock goes screwey when the system is powered up then the BIOS battery or clock is not the problem. For that to happen it must be the program maintaining the system clock , but what program is that? It is a mystery. -- ======================================================================= The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. -- Abraham Lincoln ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
