Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 18:45:31 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com> To: GReg meno <kbagel@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING: preposterous clock chip time. Message-ID: <XFMail.000130184531.freebsd@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <20000131011026.12949.qmail@web2006.mail.yahoo.com>
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Fow what its worth, I got this when the internal battery was dead. I replaced, set time and date, all is well On 31-Jan-00 GReg meno wrote: > i'm running FreeBSD 4.0-19991225-CURRENT > on an LX164 > > greg > --- Matthew Jacob <mjacob@veritas.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com> Date: 30-Jan-00 Time: 17:07:58 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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