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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-03-26 00:52:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-03-26 00:52:08 +0100 |
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Some more IRC discussions.
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diff --git a/open_issues/pfinet_vs_system_time_changes.mdwn b/open_issues/pfinet_vs_system_time_changes.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a9e1e242 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/pfinet_vs_system_time_changes.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + +IRC, unknown channel, unknown date. + + <grey_gandalf> I did a sudo date... + <grey_gandalf> and the machine hangs + +This was very likely as misdiagnosis: + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-03-25 + + <tschwinge> antrik: I suspect it'S some timing stuff in pfinet that perhaps + uses absolute time, and somehow wildely gets confused? + <antrik> tschwinge: BTW, pfinet doesn't actually die I think -- it just + drops open connections... + <antrik> perhaps it thinks they timed out + <tschwinge> antrik: Isn't the translator restarted instead? + <antrik> don't think so + <antrik> when pfinet actually dies, I also loose the NFS mounts, which + doesn't happen in this case + <antrik> hehe "... and the machine hangs" + <antrik> he didn't bother to check that the machine is perfectly fine, only + the SSH connection got dropped + <tschwinge> Ah, I see. So it'S perhaps indeed simply closes TCP + connections that have been without data for ``too long''? + <antrik> yeah, that's my guess + <antrik> my clock is speeding, so ntpdate sets it in the past + <antrik> perhaps there is some math that concludes the connection have been + inactive for -200 seconds, which (unsigned) is more than any timeout :-) + <tschwinge> (The other way round, you might likely get some integer + wrap-around, and thus the same result.) + <tschwinge> Yes. |