Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem must have occurred often enuff to other people, IMHO, but I > can't find the solution online. My 'wall-clock' (as xscreensaver calls it > in the error messages) keeps jumping ahead -- then back, semi-randomly. It > seems to do so by always the same amount(?): @ 1 hr 11 minutes.
I assume you aren't running an NTP daemon and that there are no messages in the logs about the time being stepped forward or back. Does "@" mean "approximately"? Is it closer to one hour, eight minutes, and 16 seconds? That would be 4096 seconds, and a most suspicious number of seconds to be jumping. Does it jump back and forth between two values, or does it jump several times in the same direction (so it quickly becomes many hours off)? If it's jumping continually back and forth by 4096 seconds, I'd guess you have a bad SIMM. One bit (which just happens to be where your kernel is storing the time-of-day clock) isn't being reliably set, and you see jumps forward and backward every 20 or 30 times (seconds) the kernel bumps the seconds counter. If this is the case, you might try swapping SIMMs around. However, I'd suggest labelling their original positions very carefully. If the problem does "disappear", you want to be able to get back to where you can reliably reproduce it and eliminate the offending SIMM. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
