Re: Clock stuck

[Julio Merino <jmmv%julipedia.org@localhost>]

On 1/17/12 1:29 PM, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:48:10AM -0500, Julio Merino wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > While debugging some build problems of a package in amd64 5.99.59
> > (from Jan 15)... I realized that the clock of my machine was stuck:
> >
> > netbsd:~>  date; sleep 5; date
> > Tue Jan 17 11:41:19 EST 2012
> > Tue Jan 17 11:41:19 EST 2012
> >
> > Attempted an "ntpdate start", which moved the clock forward to the
> > correct time, but it still did not move on its own.  Restarted the
> > virtual machine and then things worked.
> >
> > Has anyone spotted this?
>
> % date; sleep 5; date
> Tue Jan 17 18:27:49 GMT 2012
> Tue Jan 17 18:27:54 GMT 2012
>
> on a NetBSD-5.99.60/amd64 with ntpd, but nothing virtual about it...

Yeah.  I suspect something went wrong and then triggered the problem.  I 
do not have a way to reproduce it though, as a restart fixed it...