[arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

[Myra Nelson]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 17:49, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/10 18:18, David C. Rankin wrote:
>>
>> On 10/24/2010 05:06 AM, János Illés wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 14:54, Thomas Jost<schnouki at schnouki.net>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> I removed openntpd completely and disabled time sync. The vm still
>>> freezes eventually.
>>> Also, I cannot set clocksource to anything else than acpi_pm
>>>
>>> Let's go back to brainstorming mode, i welcome any new ideas.
>>>
>> OK,
>>
>>     Let's start over. I haven't a clue about your clocksource loop, but I
>> would
>> suggest rebuilding virtualbox using:
>>
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9753
>>
>>     Of all the different packages, I have had great luck with this one.
>> Just
>> download the tarball and untar/ungzip with:
>>
>> tar -xzf virtualbox_bin.tar.gz
>>
>> cd virtualbox_bin/
>>
>> makepkg -s
>>
>> sudo pacman -U virtualbox_bin-3.2.10-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
>>
>>     Then test again.
>>
>
> That might help but if it where me I would build it using "A clean chroot"
>
> The instructions to do that is here:
>
>  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot
>
> That way you would not get anything you didn't bargain for ;)
>
>

Another suggestion would be to download the puel version from
Oracle/Sun (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html)
and install it. I use it on two boxes and have not experienced any
problems.

Myra

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