Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb:
> 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?

Hmm, I'd have to recheck that, I assume, yes ... as one time he had
started a tar-command and I logged in some hours later to see it hanging.

> 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.

I activated ntp-client there and also a "hwclock --systohc --localtime"
at shutdown ... this seemed to help so far.

S