Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-11-15 Thread János Illés
2010/10/22 János Illés : > I searched and could not find a bug like this in neither the vbox bug > tracker nor anything kernel related. For the record: I've found a 2 years old bug in virtualbox (still open) http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3135 The workaround suggested in the comments (adding d

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-25 Thread János Illés
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 01:38, Myra Nelson wrote: > Sorry bout that, I should have read the pkgbuild first. Or you guys all should have read the original post. The host OS is windows. -- János

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-25 Thread Myra Nelson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 18:29, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:19:45 -0500 > schrieb Myra Nelson : > >> Another suggestion would be to download the puel version from >> Oracle/Sun >> (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html) and >> install it. > > That's what the AU

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-25 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:19:45 -0500 schrieb Myra Nelson : > Another suggestion would be to download the puel version from > Oracle/Sun > (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html) and > install it. That's what the AUR package virtualbox_bin is doing. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-25 Thread Myra Nelson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 17:49, Baho Utot wrote: > On 10/25/10 18:18, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> On 10/24/2010 05:06 AM, János Illés wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 14:54, Thomas Jost  wrote: Hope this helps. >>> >>> I removed openntpd completely and disabled time sync. The vm st

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-25 Thread Baho Utot
On 10/25/10 18:18, David C. Rankin wrote: On 10/24/2010 05:06 AM, János Illés wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 14:54, Thomas Jost wrote: Hope this helps. I removed openntpd completely and disabled time sync. The vm still freezes eventually. Also, I cannot set clocksource to anything else than a

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On 10/24/2010 05:06 AM, János Illés wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 14:54, Thomas Jost wrote: >> Hope this helps. > > I removed openntpd completely and disabled time sync. The vm still > freezes eventually. > Also, I cannot set clocksource to anything else than acpi_pm > > Let's go back to brai

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-24 Thread János Illés
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 14:54, Thomas Jost wrote: > Hope this helps. I removed openntpd completely and disabled time sync. The vm still freezes eventually. Also, I cannot set clocksource to anything else than acpi_pm Let's go back to brainstorming mode, i welcome any new ideas. -- János

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On 10/22/2010 09:34 AM, János Illés wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 16:29, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Playing around here might help or give ideas. > > Oh, thanks. It seems I only have acpi_pm. Is that normal? > > $ cat available_clocksource > acpi_pm > $ cat current_clocksource > acpi_pm

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-22 Thread János Illés
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 16:29, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Playing around here might help or give ideas. Oh, thanks. It seems I only have acpi_pm. Is that normal? $ cat available_clocksource acpi_pm $ cat current_clocksource acpi_pm -- János

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.10.2010 16:20, schrieb János Illés: > I learned that the clock kernel parameter is deprecated, it is now > called clocksource. Still it is somehow gets ignored, and the kernel > uses acpi_pm instead. > > $ dmesg|grep clock > Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 resume=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-22 Thread János Illés
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 14:54, Thomas Jost wrote: > Hmm, I've never had this issue, but here are a few ideas: Great ideas, thank you! I learned that the clock kernel parameter is deprecated, it is now called clocksource. Still it is somehow gets ignored, and the kernel uses acpi_pm instead. $

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-22 Thread Thomas Jost
Le 22/10/2010 14:26, János Illés a écrit : > I have an archlinux virtualbox guest on windows host. The clock of the > guest linux is randomly stuck in a few seconds loop, rendering the > system in a semi-freeze state. Hmm, I've never had this issue, but here are a few ideas: - try to disable ntpd

[arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-22 Thread János Illés
Hi, I have an archlinux virtualbox guest on windows host. The clock of the guest linux is randomly stuck in a few seconds loop, rendering the system in a semi-freeze state. It looks like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/841166/archwtf/date2.png It happens irregularly, sometimes not happens for days