From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 22:29:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173A516A477 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:29:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F6713C483 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:29:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I81jZ-0003L1-FM for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:29:33 +0200 Received: from 89-172-53-69.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([89.172.53.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:29:33 +0200 Received: from ivoras by 89-172-53-69.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:29:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:29:26 +0200 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <20070709214216.GA72912@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89-172-53-69.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) In-Reply-To: <20070709214216.GA72912@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: news Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debugging times X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:29:41 -0000 David Malone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:25:46PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> The date is set wrong either on boot or very early after the kernel has >> booted (I've verified it's wrong before hostid rc.d script, which is one >> of the first to be executed). > > I have some patches to make the code that reads the date from the > bios print errors if there is a problem parsing the date. I was > going to commit them to -current, but it might be useful for you > to test them? Yes, I'll test them. The problem is - the same kernel works when booted off a hard drive, so unless the VMWare BIOS is very messed up (it's the first time I see such problems) it may not help. Please, scatter debug printf's around so I can see what's going on :)