[110282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Leap second tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Thu Jan 1 21:12:39 2009
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 20:12:32 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Steven Saner <ssaner@hubris.net> said:
> I run a bunch of Slackware Linux boxes of varying versions. As best as I
> can tell, at or around 00:00 UTC all of my Slackware 12.0 boxes crashed
> with a kernel panic. I don't think it is ntpd because it is the same
> version as on 12.1 boxes (4.2.4p0) that did not crash. It may be the
> kernel: 2.6.21.5
>
> Anyone else experience similar or was this coincidental and I have other
> issues...
I had one (out of many, including about a half dozen identically
configured) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 systems hang at the leap second.
There have been some messages on the NTP list referencing posts on a
Debian list about leap second crashes, and there's a post on /. about a
similar problem with Fedora 8.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
