Showing posts with label y2k10. Show all posts
Showing posts with label y2k10. Show all posts

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Sent y2k10 fix upstream

It occurred to me that I've described the fix for y2k10 bug in qemu-system-sparc which makes Solaris 2.5.1 (and prior) hang, but never managed to submit it upstream.

So, let's fix it. For those one and half users who care ;-) .

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Fixed the "Solaris Y2K10" bug

Got back to Solaris/qemu Y2K10 bug. The name turned out to be misleading because a) it's not a Solaris bug and b) it's not a Y2K10 bug.

The reason for the bug was someone mixing hexadecimal and decimal values. Gonna check if there are more such places and send the trivial fix later.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

The problem of year 2010

Looks like the Solaris versions prior to the version 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) have a problem of year 2010.

Surprise, surprise! If the current date is specified, they just don't boot in a single user mode, hanging after detection of serial ports (zs1 is /obio/zs@0,0), when /devices directory should be configured.

At least the version 2.5.1 hangs when the system date is > 2009.12.20.

Weird, huh?

Going to update the howto....