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Cc: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update
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on 15/04/2010 20:53 Akephalos said the following:
> 1: %dmesg | grep -i hpet
> ACPI HPET table warning: Sequence is non-zero (2)
> acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on
> acpi0 acpi_hpet0: HPET never increments, disabling
> device_attach: acpi_hpet0 attach returned 6
> 
> 2: Yes, I have to run it every time for it to work. Not once my CPU
> load is detected after reboot, unless running ntpd.
> 
> 3: Yes, I had problems with mounts in the future and whatnot. I don't
> remember what I used where, but on Linux I used to remove a
> file, /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime and run ntpd - for the things to get
> in line.
> 
> 4: In the debugger it prints: $1 = 0, so I suppose yeah, it is set to
> zero.

I really suspect faulty hardware here.
Maybe dead CMOS/NVRAM battery or dead crystal or some chip or circuit.

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Andriy Gapon