Subject: Re: red-handed
From: Greg Johnson (gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 14:15:37 PDT
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:26AM -0400, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> I'd been having some odd lockups of my PC164LX machines... they'd be
> fine, and then they'd be pingable but you can't log in, and the
> console is unresponsive.
>
> I got on one right before it crashed and netstat -to showed the timers
> weren't changing. Then later I got on aother right before it crashed,
> and realized that "date" wasn't changing. Then I made a script which
> ran date on each machine every 10 seconds. Machines that crash
> definitely have stopped clocks.
>
> Given that I saw this under 2.0.35 and 2.2.5-16 (rh 6.0's kernel), I
> don't think it's a kernel bug. The only hardware oddity that I know of
> is that when you reboot these guys, the cmos date is always wrong. I'm
> going to replace all the batteries... could that possibly cause this
> symptom?
>
> I haven't had this much fun with clocks since I realized that flipping
> the front-panel switch on a PDP-11 that turns off the clock breaks
> Kermit, and little else.
>
> -- g
Well, my 164LX machines have been locking up, too. It happend again
yesterday on my desktop machine. I was on a VC when it locked up. I
could still switch consoles, but couldn't type anything. The machine
was still pingable, but I couldn't log in remotely. When I switched to
VC #7 (where X was running) I couldn't change back. This was with kernel
2.2.12pre4. I have since upgraded to 2.2.12pre14 and turned on the
magic SysReq keys. It hasn't locked up yet...
BTW, I believe that this machine's battery is ok. I don't know if the
clock stopped or not when it hung.
Greg
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