ntpd halts clock on a DS3100 (?)

[Jeffrey Mogul]

In article <980 at imec.UUCP> elsen at imec.be (Marc Elsen) writes:
>
>  Recently we switched  from timed to ntpd on our DECstations :
>
>  The following has happened 2 times since : on 2 DIFFERENT decstation
>  the clock seemingly halted !!
>  That is subsequent date commands always showed the same frozen time !!!
>
>  The clock could be restarted by setting it to the current time.
>
>  Is this due to a bug in ntpd.
>  You can imagine that this problem is very annoying for end users.

This is a bug in the Ultrix 4.1 kernel (and perhaps 4.0); I believe it
only affects MIPS-based systems (not Vaxen).

Anyway, it's fixed in Ultrix 4.2.

I don't know if there's a patch available for Ultrix 4.1, but if
there is one it would be a new kern_clock.o module.

-Jeff