From: David Fitzgerald (David.Fitzgerald@millersville.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 01 2004 - 13:12:19 EDT
Hi Everyone,
I have an Ultra-10 running Solaris 9 with the recommended patches applied.
It's used as a web server and an NTP server, so it is important to keep the
machine up and running. I am having a really weird problem with the server.
Last night it seemed to have rebooted itself and sent out the incorrect time
to its NTP clients all evening.
I rebooted it this morning and the PROM was changed as it wanted to boot
from the network instead of the local disk. After forcing it to boot from
the disk, it ran ok for an hour or so, but then it went haywire. The
monitor lost connection to the box, but I could log in to it remotely.
Running `top` showed that the system time to be in a loop,
going from 9:26:17 - 9:26:19 over and over. I rebooted the machine again
and the same thing happened with the time looping from 12:33:07 - 12:33:09.
Obviously, I stopped the NTP server on it, but now I'm stuck with a machine
in a time warp. Is this a symptom of a hardware problem (battery?) or could
it be someone messing with my machine?
Any help is welcome as I'm stuck as to how to troubleshoot this.
I will summarize!
Thanks
Dave
*********************************************
David Fitzgerald
Distributed System Specialist II
Millersville University
Millersville PA 17551
Phone: 717-871-2394
Fax: 717-871-4725
E-mail: david.fitzgerald@millersville.edu
<mailto:david.fitzgerald@millersville.edu>
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