Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
2009-01-03T22:59:12Z

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...