On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <sgw AT amanda DOT org> 
wrote:
> posted there as well:
>
>> The admin there noticed that the time/date was off for one hour ... set it 
>> via
>> ntpdate and from then everything worked without a problem. I can't explain 
>> ...
>> anyone?

Were the hangs more than an hour long?

When time is acting badly on a machine, *very* strange things happen.
We see this all the time on our automated-testing machines, which run
on VMWare and thus have clocks that sometimes run backward or forward
very quickly.  Just about any Amanda test that includes a timeout
fails periodically on these systems, sometimes spectacularly.

Dustin

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