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Linas Vepstas wrote at about 21:49:53 -0600 on Friday, January 2, 2009: > 2009/1/2 Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>: > > Slashdot reported a story of Linux machines crashing on New years eve. > > FYI, Looks like the bug has been found, and theres a patch! > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/2/389 > > --linas > As the OP, good to know that all those who said "it's just a coincidence that your machine that has been rock stable for 6 years just happened to crash at midnight GMT when the leap second was inserted..." were wrong :) Thanks for the good follow-up and detective work. Hopefully, it's not too late for Fedora to provide the patch before support for Fedora 8 expires on the 7th... | ||||||||||||
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