Re: Updating sparc64 time_t, hostname not found

From: Wafa M. Hadidi <wmmh_at_identd.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:57:26 +0200
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On Friday 19 March 2004 00:28, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> Okay.  Hmm.  Well, that indicates that it is not the 64-bTT
> change itself which is the problem.  Unfortunately, knowing that
> does not actually help you.  Given your answer, I am also then
> at a loss to explain the times you are seeing from 'ls' output.
>
Its not only an ls problem, using ntpdate for an example to sync my clock is also resetting it to the zero.

>
> The other thing this tells me is that your problem looks the same
> as Daniel's problem, but it must be slightly different.  He got
> all the way to step 17, while you are seeing the problem before
> you have changed anything to be 64-bit time_t's.
>
It was my fault not to mention that early, sorry :)

> The fact that you are seeing this at the earlier stage is probably
> very significant, but I am not sure what it means...
>
Though I am not sure, but here is what I think: some files used 32_bTT and have been updated to use 64_bTT instead. These files lack the ability to detect my installation type (32 or 64) and they preassume that 64 is the default during the makeworld phase.

> If you are failing that early in the installworld step, then it
> should be true that very little was actually changed.  What happens
> if you reboot into your previous kernel?  Do you still get the odd
> time-stamp results from 'ls'?  What do you get for the output of
> the 'date' command?  Something reasonable?  Or is it just that
> your machine-clock is getting reset to zero?  (you might want
> to boot up in single-user mode to check that, perhaps your normal
> startup process will do things that fix your system's clock).
>
Rebooting to the old kernel solves everything, ls shows correct time-stamps and ntpdate syncs to the right time.

> Also, if you are upgrading to the latest files in /usr/src, when
> did you do your *previous* system upgrade?  That might help us
> figure out what's happening.

My last system upgrade was in Mon Jan 12 09:04:03 EET 2004.

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