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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!news.belwue.de!eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de!zh From: zh@news.uni-konstanz.de (Z. Horvat) Subject: Re: date Message-ID: <1993Apr8.071506.114536@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de> Sender: usenet@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de Organization: RZ Universitaet Konstanz X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] References: <matthew.734184784@femto.engr.mun.ca> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 07:15:06 GMT Lines: 28 Matthew Newhook (matthew@femto.engr.mun.ca) wrote: : I'm running the 0.1.2.2 kernel, and when I attempt to change the date on : my machine (with the date command) my machine works fine for about 10 seconds : and then just dies. Sometimes it might come back, sometimes not... Any ideas? : Mattew Had experienced the same problem when my CMOS Clock was too far away from the actual time. So my system came up with a date set to 1980 or such. Changing the time on the running system would crash it without any message/panic/trap etc Can't tell you what the reason is, but a workaround would be to configure the cmos date & time to reasonable values. -- --------------------------------------------------- SYS337654 Could not locate coffee - Operator halted --------------------------------------------------- ++++++++++++++ Z. Horvat | MIME & | Rechenzentrum Universitaet Konstanz | METAMAIL | ++49-7531-88-2405 | ACCEPTED | ++++++++++++++ zh@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de rzhorv@nyx.uni-konstanz.de