Re: time bug in Linux kernel

Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:51:07 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Dirk Nehring wrote:

>we are using Debian 2.1 as our distribution. On one host (with an old
>kernel, 2.0.32) I recently found a date problem:
>
>root@suzuki:~# date
>Wed Aug 18 09:39:21 MEST 1999
>root@suzuki:~# uptime
> 9:39am up 458 days, 2:02h, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>root@suzuki:~# vmstat
> procs memory swap io system cpu
> r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
>vmstat: vmstat.c:241: getstat: Assertion `*itot>*i1' failed.
>IOT trap/Abort (core dumped)
>root@suzuki:~# uname -a
>Linux suzuki 2.0.32 #1 Tue Nov 18 14:08:53 MET 1997 i586 unknown
>root@suzuki:~# cat /proc/interrupts
> 0: 3957903912 timer
> 1: 565 keyboard
> 2: 0 cascade
> 8: 1 + rtc
>10: 251957557 DC21140 (eth0)
>11: 94817972 + BusLogic BT-946C
>13: 1 math error
>root@suzuki:~# ps aux | grep ps
>root 19415 0.0 1.3 976 428 p2 R Jan 20 0:00 ps aux
>root 19416 0.0 1.1 828 348 p2 S Jan 20 0:00 grep ps
>
>Oops, processes are running with the wrong system time and vmstat dumps
>core. Is this a known bug (as you see, the host is 458 days up)?

No offense intended, but the 2.0.32 kernel is about 50 years old.
Any bugs on non-recent kernel (2.2.11/2.0.37) are going to get
you the same answer:

Upgrade your kernel to 2.2.11, and see if the problem goes away.

Nobody is going to debug a 500 year old kernel... ;o)

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