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Wierd transitory date/time problem
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| Madhusudan Singh 2004-10-16, 5:47 pm |
| When I just started up KDE on my laptop after booting it up, it showed a
date :
Jan 1, 2002, 00:02 hrs.
Running date in a konsole confirmed that, so it was not just KDE acting
braindead.
Running a rdate -s time.nist.gov as root did not seem to help. After a
while, my desktop froze (not suprised really, many apps probably depend on
the date being approximately right) and I had to hit ctrl+alt+backspace to
get out of the bind.
I logged back in again (without rebooting the machine), and things look fine
now. What could have caused this brainstorm ? This is a relatively new (~6
months) single boot machine running Debian GNU Linux Sarge, so there is
none of that windoze messing up the clock business.
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| Bill Marcum 2004-10-16, 5:47 pm |
| On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:11:29 -0400, Madhusudan Singh
<spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote:
> When I just started up KDE on my laptop after booting it up, it showed a
> date :
>
> Jan 1, 2002, 00:02 hrs.
>
> Running date in a konsole confirmed that, so it was not just KDE acting
> braindead.
>
> Running a rdate -s time.nist.gov as root did not seem to help. After a
> while, my desktop froze (not suprised really, many apps probably depend on
> the date being approximately right) and I had to hit ctrl+alt+backspace to
> get out of the bind.
>
> I logged back in again (without rebooting the machine), and things look fine
> now. What could have caused this brainstorm ? This is a relatively new (~6
> months) single boot machine running Debian GNU Linux Sarge, so there is
> none of that windoze messing up the clock business.
If it wasn't relatively new, I'd say the CMOS battery was dying. You
might check that if it happens again.
Did the rdate command give any output? I use ntpdate, it shows the
corrected time or says if it can't contact the server.
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