From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 28 11:26:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FE037B417 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:26:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06848; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:26:49 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g2SJQJj79585; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:26:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15523.28251.551575.812462@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:26:19 -0500 (EST) To: Wilko Bulte Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/36390: cvsup core dumps on FreeBSD/Alpha 4.5-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <20020328202320.A27485@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <15523.15336.854733.561407@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15523.27208.853432.144659@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200203281913.g2SJDp211885@vashon.polstra.com> <15523.27779.685851.597969@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020328202320.A27485@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte writes: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:18:27PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > John Polstra writes: > > > > > > Off the list Nicholas told me a few minutes ago that the date on the > > > Alpha was set to the year 1912. That was the cause of the problem (an > > > overflow in a date calculation). > > > > Ah, sounds like a job for clock_compat_osf1. > > > > Nicholas - if you're dual booting between FreeBSD & Tru64, try putting > > clock_compat_osf1=1 > > into /boot/loader.conf > > Drew, is there any reason to not have this as default? Making it the default would cause needless pain & suffering for our entire installed base, as their clocks would suddenly be wrong. And it would introduce (the same) problems for people dual booting linux. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message