Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:58:37 -0500
From: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <slashdot@kosowsky.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years
 2008-2009
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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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