Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4634 mails)

[Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stevens wrote:
> I have been following this thread and have seen several responders go 
> off on tangents, proposing solutions that have little bearing on the 
> problem as listed. 
> 
> The way I understood the original problem is that the OS clock routine 
> in the installation in question is beserk. Nuts. Spastic. On speed. Or 
> any other term you want to lay on it. It's like the wall clock with the 
> hands spinning really fast in spite of having a motor that is supposed 
> to be synchronous with the input ac frequency, and the OS clock 
> correction software pukes when trying to correct it. 
> 
> The solution is to determine how the system clock actually works and 
> then determine what is so special about his particular installation 
> that would cause the problem. Obviously it only happens with a few 
> systems or we would all be bitching about it. So what is so different 
> about his? It does seem to be an interesting puzzle.
> 
> Fred
> 

Finally someone "other than possibly Anders Norrbring with his
"clock=pit" suggestion" with some sense.

A dmesg output from the OP might shed some light.

Mark
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