clock stops (Ultra-5, Solaris 8)

From: Jacques Beigbeder (Jacques.Beigbeder@ens.fr)
Date: Fri Jun 10 2005 - 07:39:55 EDT


Hello,

Hardware: Ultra 5
OS : Solaris 8

An Ultra-5 fails to update the clock. Then several deamons
(sendmail for instance) fail.

Here is an evidence: to test Web servers, somehost.ens.fr get /
on this Web server every 15mn. And the Apache logs contain:
  (here it's ok)
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:01:05 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 304 -
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:16:04 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 304 -
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:31:02 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 304 -
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:46:11 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 304 -
  (here it fails!)
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:58:49 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4226
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:58:51 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4226
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:58:51 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4226
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:58:50 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4226
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:58:50 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4226
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:58:51 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4226
somehost.ens.fr - - [10/Jun/2005:02:58:51 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4226

So my Ultra-5 decided to stay at 02:58:49 - 02:58:51 for several
hours... No NTP daemon, but it's the same problem with or without.

Where is the problem? Hardware? Software?

Thanks in advance,

--
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