Bug 508835
| Summary: | [4.6] The system time leaps 2 days 21 hours 41 min future. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 4.6 | CC: | dhoward, jolsa, mgahagan, moshiro, pm-eus, prarit, sghosh, tao, vgoyal |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
A bug in timer_interrupt() may have caused the system time to move up to two days or more into the future, or to be delayed for several minutes. This bug only affected Intel 64 and AMD64 systems that have the High Precision Event Timer (HPET) enabled in the BIOS, and could have caused problems for applications that require timing to be accurate.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-08-13 15:35:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 491147 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2009-06-30 08:00:03 UTC
Committed in 89.0.4 An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1211.html
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A bug in timer_interrupt() may have caused the system time to move up to two days or more into the future, or to be delayed for several minutes. This bug only affected Intel 64 and AMD64 systems that have the High Precision Event Timer (HPET) enabled in the BIOS, and could have caused problems for applications that require timing to be accurate.
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