Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 13:40:34 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Very odd clock problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106101319340.97716-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <E158ipL-000OVy-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>
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On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Pete French wrote: > One of our FreeBSD machine is starting to loose time very badly. Odd as it > is running ntp from 5 different servers. Its also not a small loss, the > clock jumps backwards to the year 1933 ! Anybody got any ideas or seen > anything similar ? Check your hardware, make sure everything has good electrical contact. I took out the video card from one of our test servers a few weeks ago, cleaned the video card's bus contacts and put it back into the server. Before that the time-of-day was speeding up, NTP got confused so I used timed instead, timed had to pull back the time-of-day by 40-50 seconds every four minutes. (We use both NTP and timed at this site, most servers use NTP, but one server cannot handle NTP yet since it is running RISC/os.) After cleaning the video card the time-of-day is running normal, NTP is now able to syncronize, and the colours on the monitor are back. I later replaced the video card with another video card just to be safe. Let me just add that the faulty video card was a ISA card, whereas the new video card and the NIC are both PCI cards. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.5-S & Pine 4.31 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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