On Fri, 30 May 2008, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know what caused the freeze; The hard reset would keep the > shutdown scripts from setting the system time to the hardware clock. On > restart, did the ntpd eventually get a network connection and fix the > time?
Yes. As soon as network interface woke up, openntpd clients started to connect to ntp peers and fixed the time. > It may not have been a freeze at all, just a networking problem that > wasn't found by fitzing with the cable. > > Logging in from a VT or serial terminal would have been helpful. If you > are concerned that this may happen again, you may even want to connect > up a serial console to another box (or a real serial VT) and watch that > as well. That's exactly what I did. It seems to be the only feasible solution at this time. Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
