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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 04:16:15 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stable build breakage on the alpha
Message-ID:  <20011128041614.B12023@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <200111280241.fAS2f7K55939@vashon.polstra.com>
References:  <XFMail.011127164039.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20011128021851.A11733@cicely8.cicely.de> <200111280131.fAS1VxQ54936@vashon.polstra.com> <20011128025449.A12023@cicely8.cicely.de> <200111280241.fAS2f7K55939@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:41:07PM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <20011128025449.A12023@cicely8.cicely.de>,
> Bernd Walter  <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> wrote:
> > > Does your obj tree still exist?  If so, what happens when you go
> > > into src/gnu/lib/libgmp and type "make -n mpz"?
> > 
> > Unfortunately not.
> > The build partition was loaned from a mirror and is now back.
> > I also rm'ed the source and only left src/sys.
> 
> I have another clue.  Something time-related is seriously screwed up
> on this machine:
> 
> alpha$ date
> Thu Nov  9 15:20:50 PST 1933
> alpha$ date +%s
> -1140568746
> 
> The interesting thing is that it thinks it's in sync with its NTP
> server (whose time is definitely correct):
> 
> alpha$ ntpq -nc peers
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
> ==============================================================================
> *206.213.73.1    204.147.80.25    2 u  169  512  377    0.703   93.014  55.120
> 
> Looking at the hex time values shows that on the Alpha, the sign bit
> is being set gratuitously.  I.e., the time should have the value
> 0x3c044d65, but on the Alpha it is 0xbc044d65.
> 
> Does anybody remember this as being a bug that was present in the
> 4.4-RC1 kernel?  That's what I'm running during the build.

Phew - you made me nervous,
but this is not the case on the PC164 I updated:

bernd@srv1.cosmo-project.de:~> uname -a
FreeBSD srv1.cosmo-project.de 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Fri Nov 23 02:30:26 CET 2001     root@srv1.cosmo-project.de:/var/d1/FreeBSD-2001-11-21/src/sys/compile/SRV1  alpha
bernd@srv1.cosmo-project.de:~> date
Wed Nov 28 03:58:09 CET 2001
bernd@srv1.cosmo-project.de:~> date +%s
1006916299
bernd@srv1.cosmo-project.de:~> ntpq -nc peers
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
+194.77.111.28   130.149.17.21    2 u  125 1024  377    6.576    0.854   3.660
 194.231.40.2    129.69.1.153     2 u  41m 1024  314    0.000    0.000   0.000
 194.77.8.1      129.69.1.153     2 u  255 1024  363   34.648  -680.76   0.000
*192.53.103.104  .PTB.            1 u  185 1024  377   20.600    2.075   0.000
+192.53.103.103  .PTB.            1 u  568 1024  137   20.855    2.068   7.752
 130.149.17.21   .GPS.            1 u  505 1024  375   12.939    1.981   1.230
-129.69.1.153    .DCFp.           1 u  246 1024  377    6.624    0.751   0.206

The timestamps on various files in /var/run showed me that the time was
also correct at boot time.

Whatever the cause for your problem is.
It is either already fixed or specific to your environment.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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