SUN date problem
Marcus Moehrmann
marcus at fkihh.UUCP
Fri May 6 18:43:27 AEST 1988
In article <21024 at oliveb.olivetti.com> ilcu at icoven.UUCP (Daniela Papa) writes:
>
>Every time I reboot my SUN 3/50M I get the message that the clock lost
>29 days. While running the clock slows done about 10 minutes per hour, I
>avoid this by speeding up the clock rate ( date -annn.sss ) but having to
>reset the date every time I boot is a pain in the neck. Has anybody
>experienced this problem? Is it a hardware bug....
Here is a fix, which was posted to newsgroup 'Comp.sys.sun'
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SUN-SPOTS DIGEST Thursday, 7 January 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 1
Today's Topics:
Administrivia and Non-trivia
Sun TOD Clock bug Patches for all releases
Sendmail 'Oi' fix breaks SMTP mail
Re: rows,cols (window sizing)
Re: disk versus memory
Diffs to make gnuplot 1.1.0 run under SunCGI
PD indexing software
Low Cost SCSI drives for Sun's
Sun 3 keyboards drop characters when you type too fast
Strange failure of bind(2) on diskless clients
Attempt to compile dumpregion.c
ping bug?
Removable Disk Storage on Suns?
Maximum disk space limitation?
How to do hybrid slider/text panel items?
SI83 8" SMD disks and SMD controllers?
Ethernet controllers for Suns?
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 88 17:46:46 CST
From: William LeFebvre <phil at Rice.edu>
Subject: Administrivia and Non-trivia
I just got all caught up with Sun-Spots and then Christmas break hit.
Oh well......
Two of the files in the SunRPC distribution (contained in the archives)
suffer from the infamous dot-on-a-line-by-itself disease. I hope to take
care of the problem in the very near future (I may just ask the author to
repack those files with a better mail packer). The afflicted files are
"rpcsrc.doc.11" and "rpcsrc.doc.13". Sorry for the inconvenience.
Finally, what new year would be complete without a widespread and serious
bug to plague everyone. No, I'm not talking about the flu. I'm talking
about a disturbance in the temporal plane: the now infamous drifting
clock bug. As most of you probably know by now, there is a bug in SunOS
that, as of the beginning of the year, makes the TOD clock drift or
otherwise behave oddly. Chuq at Sun has been kind enough to send a patch
to Sun-Spots for this bug. I recommend this patch over all others---it's
straight from Sun. It is all contained in the next message. I felt it
important enough to pull it out of the queue of waiting message and run it
immediately.
William LeFebvre
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
<phil at Rice.edu>
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 88 10:29:15 PST
From: chuq at sun.com (Chuq Von Rospach)
Subject: Sun TOD Clock bug Patches for all releases
[These are the official patches from Sun for all known affected releases
in the field. If you have any questions or problems, please call Sun
Tech Support]
chuq
Sun Tech Support
There exists a problem for all Sun3 (68020) machines running SunOS
Releases 3.0-3.5, and all Sun4 (SPARC) machines running SunOS
Release Sys4-3.2 FCS and Sys4-3.2L GAMMA. This problem does not
exist for Sun-2's.
As of Jan 1 00:00 1988, the clock routine in the kernel will put the
clock chip into an uncertain state if you attempt to set the date.
The visible effects of this is to 1) cause the message
WARNING: TOD clock not initialized -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
to appear while booting vmunix, and to 2) cause the system date to start
to drift widely. Any attempts to actually *set* the date will have only a
temporary effect (i.e., the date you set will be good for about 30 seconds).
In order to solve this problem, you must patch both the kernel and system
object files.
[[ NOTE that there are three separate patches. Make sure you use the
right one. --wnl ]]
==============================================================================
Sun3 System Patch
Releases 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
This is for Diskful and Server Machines only. Diskless machines need to
be fixed on the server.
As root, run the follwing command:
echo 'resettodr+c0?i' | adb /vmunix - | grep reset
You should see the following printed out:
_resettodr+c0: bnes _resettodr+0xca
If you see instead:
_resettodr+c0: bnes _resettodr+0xce
the patch has already been applied to this system.
Proceed with the rest of the patch procedure anyway!
If you do not see either of these messages, go no further with this patch,
and please contact Sun Microsystems Customer Service.
If you do see either of those messages, then run, as root,
the following commands:
echo 'resettodr+c0?w 660c' | adb -w /vmunix
Reboot and then *set* the date.
If you build kernels for your system, or are a server for diskless clients,
do, as root
cp /sys/OBJ/clock.o /sys/OBJ/clock.o-
echo 'resettodr+c0?w 660c' | adb -w /sys/OBJ/clock.o
and then rebuild your kernel and/or the kernels for your diskless clients.
==============================================================================
Sun3 System Patch
Release SunOS Release 3.0
This is for Diskful and Server Machines only. Diskless machines need to
be fixed on the server.
As root, run the following command:
echo 'todset+0xb4?i' | adb /vmunix -
You should see the following printed out:
_todset+0xb4: bnes _todset+0xbe
If you see instead:
_todset+0xb4: bnes _todset+0xc2
the patch has already been applied to this system.
Proceed with the rest of the patch procedure anyway!
If you do not see either of these messages, go no further with this patch,
and please contact Sun Microsystems Customer Service.
If you do see either of those messages, then run, as root,
the following command:
echo 'todset+0xb4?w 0x660c' | adb -w /vmunix
Reboot and then *set* the date.
If you build kernels for your system, or are a server for diskless clients,
do, as root
cp /sys/OBJ/clock.o /sys/OBJ/clock.o-
echo 'todset+0xb4?w 0x660c' | adb -w /sys/OBJ/clock.o
and then rebuild your kernel and/or the kernels for your diskless clients.
==============================================================================
Sun4 System Patch
Release Sys4-3.2 FCS, Sys4-3.2L GAMMA
This is for Diskful and Server Machines only. Diskless machines need to
be fixed on the server.
echo 'resettodr+0x110?i' | adb /vmunix -
You should see the following printed out:
_resettodr+0x110: sub %i5, 0x1, %i5
If you see instead:
_resettodr+0x110: sub %i5, 0x0, %i5
the patch has already been applied to this system.
Proceed with the rest of the patch procedure anyway!
If you do not see either of these messages, go no further with this patch,
and please contact Sun Microsystems Customer Service.
If you do see either of those messages, then run, as root,
the following command:
echo 'resettodr+0x110?W ba276000' | adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/mem
Reboot and then *set* the date.
If you build kernels for your system, or are a server for diskless clients,
do, as root
cp /sys/sun4/OBJ/clock.o /sys/sun4/OBJ/clock.o-
echo 'resettodr+0x110?W ba276000' | adb -w /sys/sun4/OBJ/clock.o
and then rebuild your kernel and/or the kernels for your diskless clients.
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