Problem with Solaris 10 and date on AMD64

From: Johan A. (lasted@xrs.net)
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 09:30:16 EDT


Hi,

I have a problem with two AMD64 machines of which one is a two week old Sun Fire V20z. Both are running Solaris 10 03/05.
>From time to time they both hangs an can't allocate pty's. If I then reboot it the time is reset to Jan 1 1970 and I get an error whie it is starting up that the time chips have wrong century.
This seems a bit strange since it's supposed to use NTP to sync time and other machines get the right time from the NTP server.
However, if I disable NTP on them and try to set the time manually (with #date MMDDhhmmYYY) I get:
bash-3.00# svcadm enable svc:/network/ntp:default
<set time>
bash-3.00# svcadm enable svc:/network/ntp:default
bash-3.00# svcs |grep ntp
svcs: Could not bind to repository server: repository server unavailable. Exiting.
And after this the machine is useless and needs to be rebooted. For instance I get:
bash-3.00# ps
ps: getexecname() failed
And it can't allocate pty's again. So what am I missing here?

/Johan

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