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Re: Leap second tonight

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Habets)
Sun Jan 4 10:10:18 2009

Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:09:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>
To: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090101161351.GU14718@virtual.bogons.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> My Oracle boxes that rebooted were running RAC (version 10G R2), too. Another
> Solaris 10 box running the same version of Oracle, but not RAC, did not reboot.
>
> Looks rather like an Oracle 10 RAC bug.

It's a known bug in Oracle 10. When the time is set backwards the system 
reboots. I don't have the bug id at hand but there is one, and a patch.

Either patch or don't run NTP on Oracle servers.

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