Hello again,<br><br>There hasn't been much response to my earlier query (see below). But I have done some digging, and it appears that I'm not alone:<br><br><div><span class="780512207-29022008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a title="blocked::https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/183879" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/183879">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/183879</a></font></span></div>
<div><span class="780512207-29022008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a title="blocked::http://communities.vmware.com/thread/110729" href="http://communities.vmware.com/thread/110729">http://communities.vmware.com/thread/110729</a></font></span></div>
<div><span class="780512207-29022008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a title="blocked::http://www.amoeba.org/articles/tag/vmware" href="http://www.amoeba.org/articles/tag/vmware">http://www.amoeba.org/articles/tag/vmware</a></font></span></div>
<div><span class="780512207-29022008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a title="blocked::http://www.amoeba.org/articles/2008/02/03/fixing-a-clock-problem-in-vmware-ubuntu" href="http://www.amoeba.org/articles/2008/02/03/fixing-a-clock-problem-in-vmware-ubuntu">http://www.amoeba.org/articles/2008/02/03/fixing-a-clock-problem-in-vmware-ubuntu</a></font></span></div>
<div><span class="780512207-29022008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a title="blocked::http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-09/msg01203.html" href="http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-09/msg01203.html">http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-09/msg01203.html</a></font></span></div>
<div><span class="780512207-29022008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a title="blocked::http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems#head-c315e5c497d1ac178f1346fb691e44f2d9792ab5" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems#head-c315e5c497d1ac178f1346fb691e44f2d9792ab5">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems#head-c315e5c497d1ac178f1346fb691e44f2d9792ab5</a> (search
for "clock")</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="780512207-29022008"></span></div><div><span class="780512207-29022008"><font face="Arial" size="2">The server is stable for the moment, but I'm not sure for how long, or in quantitative terms, how stable the clock really is from one minute to the next. Will have to find "time" to deal with this...<br>
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<div><span class="780512207-29022008"><font face="Arial" size="2">Regards</font></span></div>
<div><span class="780512207-29022008"><font face="Arial" size="2">Simon</font></span></div><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 22/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Simon Hoffe</b> <<a href="mailto:sjhoffe@gmail.com">sjhoffe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi All,<br> <br> I've got a serious problem with clock stability on an Ubuntu 7.10<br> server running in VM on a VMWare ESX platform.<br> <br> At some random time, on some nights, the date will jump years backwards.<br>
<br> What happened when I logged in this morning:<br> <br> Last login: Thu Feb 21 13:04:53 2008 from workstation<br> user@server:~$ date<br> Wed Jul 16 21:05:11 SAST 1986<br> <br> I'd seen this previously and I installed ntpd and configured it to<br>
pull time for a nearby server. This problem has now manifested with<br> and without ntpd installed! At the same time as I installed ntpd I<br> also installed and configured the VMWare toolset, which also appears<br> to have made no difference.<br>
<br> ntpd doesn't like correcting a date when it's so far out (I think<br> there's an option to override this behaviour - but that's not the root<br> cause).<br> <br> I've got the following in /var/log/messages:<br>
<br> Feb 21 18:17:25 server -- MARK --<br> Feb 21 18:37:25 server -- MARK --<br> Jul 16 21:14:13 server kernel: [296710.149028] Clocksource tsc<br> unstable (delta = 1133957718661 ns)<br> <br> Any ideas?<br> <br> Is there a known issue running Ubuntu 7.10 on a VM?<br>
<br> Ubuntu installation is fully up-to-date<br> <br> The server has now gone unstable, my ssh session has hung and I can't<br> even log in at tty1. I'm going to have to do a hard reset...<br> <br> Many thanks,<br>
Simon<br> <br><br> --<br> Simon Hoffe<br> <a href="mailto:sjhoffe@gmail.com">sjhoffe@gmail.com</a><br> Cell: +27 82 869 7441<br> Tel (work): +27 31 508 2884<br> Fax (work): +27 31 539 5255<br> </blockquote></div><br>