Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:26:19 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/36390: cvsup core dumps on FreeBSD/Alpha 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <15523.28251.551575.812462@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020328202320.A27485@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <15523.15336.854733.561407@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203281116160.54193-100000@kindercampus.ab.ca> <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>
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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
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