Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:46:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@veritas.com> To: GReg meno <kbagel@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING: preposterous clock chip time. Message-ID: <Pine.SO4.4.05.10001301643470.19894-100000@megami.veritas.com> In-Reply-To: <20000131004157.20560.qmail@web2001.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, GReg meno wrote: > my systems time is messed up > date returns a random time which is sometimes off a > day and a few hours or a year > on bootup i get > > WARNING: preposterous clock chip time > --- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! > > what is going on here? Need some more details. There was, hee hee, a y2k bug when it didn't believe that year < 70 was a valid year. This was fixed around the 2nd of January for -current. So -what kernel are you running. What machine, etc... If you are running this particular machine with OSF/1, there's a different interpretation on the NVRAM in the toy (chip), or if you switch with ARC and run NT, there's yet *another* intepretation of NVRAM, so they all step on each other. This is a known problem, but hasn't been a high priority issue to fix. > > PS is there some website for freebsd alpha simmilar to > www.alphalinux.org that has answers to all these kind > of questions ? Wish there was- I don't know if there really is one set up yet. We sure need one. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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