On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:19:17 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
Well it now seems that after this reboot (which was just to expand
some disk space) my VPS time is all fubar.
I set the time/date with nptdate <time/datestring>
Then repeatedly hitting date <return> date <return> shows the date
escallating rapidly, something like an hour per second and the date
shifts wildly.
I have fed all this back to my VPS supplier and their answer is to
install an official Ubuntu kernel!
I don't understand why all of a sudden I have to do this. My VPS has
been working fine without this problem until now.
Surely I shouldn't have to install a kernel myself?
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Their answers are:
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You are correct. Ubuntu 8.04 userspace does not handle the date
returned by the Kernel correctly. Only an Ubuntu Kernel will work for
now.
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The date *is* actually correct. Ubuntu cannot work with your current
Kernel correctly and as such the userspace date is incorrect (spirals
out of control).
You'll notice if you log out and log in again the date will start to
count differently.
The only solution as mentioned is to install the official Ubuntu
kernels for now.
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