On Sun 30 Jul 2000, Nick Matthews wrote: > I have two AlphaStation 200 4/166 machines, which I currently have slink > installed on. When I first installed them however, I tried to upgrade them > to potato, but then the time went all wonky. hwclock returned the correct > time, but every other program turned up all sorts of interesting answers > for the time. The time seemed to jump around randomly, showing no consistency.
Yes, a known problem; you *MUST* !!! upgrade to a 2.2 kernel *BEFORE* starting the debian upgrade from slink to potato. > Is there any particular reason why potato would behave differently than > slink? There's something "wonky" about the handling of the time value, although it's not been followed up on. Probably that the potato libc stuff expects a 64-bit value, and 2.0 kernels only return 32 bits. Or vice versa. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.de/
