From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 30 16:47:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pallas.veritas.com (pallas.veritas.com [204.177.156.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB6615274 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:47:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@veritas.com) Received: from megami.veritas.com (megami.veritas.com [192.203.46.101]) by pallas.veritas.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA06947; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:50:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (1632 bytes) by megami.veritas.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:smart_host/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:46:59 -0800 (PST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #4 built 1999-Aug-24) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:46:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@veritas.com To: GReg meno Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING: preposterous clock chip time. In-Reply-To: <20000131004157.20560.qmail@web2001.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, GReg meno wrote: > my systems time is messed up > date returns a random time which is sometimes off a > day and a few hours or a year > on bootup i get > > WARNING: preposterous clock chip time > --- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! > > what is going on here? Need some more details. There was, hee hee, a y2k bug when it didn't believe that year < 70 was a valid year. This was fixed around the 2nd of January for -current. So -what kernel are you running. What machine, etc... If you are running this particular machine with OSF/1, there's a different interpretation on the NVRAM in the toy (chip), or if you switch with ARC and run NT, there's yet *another* intepretation of NVRAM, so they all step on each other. This is a known problem, but hasn't been a high priority issue to fix. > > PS is there some website for freebsd alpha simmilar to > www.alphalinux.org that has answers to all these kind > of questions ? Wish there was- I don't know if there really is one set up yet. We sure need one. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message