Leap second --> Linux crash?

aleph · #1 2nd January 2009, 06:42 AM

Have you encountered anything similar to this guy did?
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/01/1930202
He's using F8 and it crashed roughly at midnight, New Year's Eve.

I personally haven't had anything like that. Have you?

Just checked my uptime:

Code:

14:40:49 up 4 days, 30 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.67, 0.41, 0.31

I'm running F10.

***Dan*** · #2 2nd January 2009, 07:04 AM

No problem here. -- F10 -- (Had to reboot for a kernel change two weeks ago. Need to do it again tomorrow.)

Code:

uptime
 01:03:10 up 11 days,  2:26,  2 users,  load average: 0.40, 0.45, 0.41

#3 2nd January 2009, 07:05 AM

hmm well i have had a crash but one wonders if it was a hardware fault that made his Fedora8 crash

Jake · #4 2nd January 2009, 01:59 PM

No I never, but that's because my machines were all powered off new years, partly because I was drinking and really didn't want to make them stop working ya know? I even pulled the plug out and flicked the switch on the power supply, so I had to at least be semi sober to figure out how to get it working again

, plus I was with family. Well my mother and grandma only, but it still counts.

jimfenton · #5 2nd January 2009, 04:21 PM

Read through the responses to the Slashdot posting...it happened to others (including myself), although it didn't happen to everybody. My hardware has been very reliable, and it's on a UPS, but the system just hung.

A similar (same?) problem has also been brought up on linux.debian.user.

Jake · #6 2nd January 2009, 04:23 PM

Hmm I think this deserves a "Spooky" but pronounced "Spookeey" (with a long eeh sort of ey)