[lug] system clock stuck

[Hugh Brown]

I have a suse box that has a system clock that is stuck.  It cycles the
same three seconds over and over again.

Thu Jul  3 15:04:11 EDT 2003
server:/var/log # date
Thu Jul  3 15:04:12 EDT 2003
server:/var/log # date
Thu Jul  3 15:04:13 EDT 2003
server:/var/log # date
Thu Jul  3 15:04:13 EDT 2003
server:/var/log # date
Thu Jul  3 15:04:11 EDT 2003


The hardware clock is fine:

server:/var/log # hwclock 
Thu Jul  3 11:05:22 2003  -0.363433 seconds
server:/var/log # hwclock 
Thu Jul  3 11:05:25 2003  -0.972405 seconds
server:/var/log # hwclock 
Thu Jul  3 11:05:27 2003  3.660296 seconds
server:/var/log # hwclock 
Thu Jul  3 11:05:28 2003  -0.100878 seconds
server:/var/log # hwclock 
Thu Jul  3 11:05:29 2003  -0.036035 seconds
server:/var/log # hwclock 
Thu Jul  3 11:05:30 2003  -0.263997 seconds
server:/var/log # hwclock 
Thu Jul  3 11:05:31 2003  3.535199 seconds
server:/var/log # hwclock 
Thu Jul  3 11:05:32 2003  -0.226337 seconds


I'm at a loss.  The last time this happened (prior to today), I rebooted
and all was well (I went googling and didn't find anything useful).  It
happened again this morning (after a power outage).  The reboot cured it
for a while, but it is back after about an hour.

There isn't anything in /var/log/messages that looks related.

Any ideas?

Hugh