On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Ale Terlevich wrote:

> 
>   Hi.
> 
>  I seem to be ahving problems with my real time clock
> 
>   Every now and again it sets the year to 2000.
> (Day number, month and time stay correct)
> 
>   What's going on?
> 
>   I think it's doing it on reboots/halts. Although not always.
> (I have timed_flags=NO in /etc/netstart)
> 
>   I've had to reset it a few times now. The computer stays switched on
> during these reboots, and it is the CMOS clock being changed as RiscOS 
> thinks it's 2000 too.
> 
>   Anyone else get this?  Is it something obvious?

I have also got exactly this problem the date (at the moment I am using 
ntpdate in my startup sequence to reset it - and xntpd to keep it 
correct) ever since I started using a new kernel I compiled on the 6 or 
7th January. I managed to compile new versions of kvm_mkdb, libkvm.a, ps, 
w and systat but they would still not work.

Jasper Wallace very kindly sent me new versions of w, ps, systat and 
libkvm.a which all worked, until I started using a kernel I compiled 
yesterday. Now netstat gives 'netstat: kvm_read: Bad address' errors, ps 
will not work with the u option, gives floating point exception errors, 
and I am still trying to recompile the binaries but to no avail.

The source code I am using is the complete sup-ed source from 
wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (I sup it daily) - it helps having access to 
a large amount of network drive space.

Any help with the date or system binary problems would be gratefully 
accepted.

Cheers,

mark

ps: Mark - the two swap partitions 'seem' to work fine - except that X 
has become a little more unstable when swap space is actually being used 
- becoming more unstable as more swap is used.

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