the laptop where time stops

[Bill Heagy]

Check the bios battery.  When it goes, all sorts of strange things can 
happen.

Giles Orr wrote:
> This is a strange problem.
>
> I have a laptop that runs an "at" job to play music with mpg321 every
> morning and wake me up.  The last three days, it's played about a
> minute and a half of the first song (it's set to play three randomly
> selected) and it just ... stops.  When I get up and press a key on the
> keyboard - which also wakes up the screen - the music playback
> resumes.  There's nothing in /var/log/messages.  This morning I
> deliberately waited 2 minutes by another clock in the room, then
> pressed the key - and verified that the time on the laptop was two
> minutes slower than it should have been.  Apparently time stops during
> the break in music playback.
>
> I can replace the laptop if I have to (it's very old), but it wouldn't
> be my first choice.  Among other things, it's exhibited no other
> strange behaviours.  Any thoughts on how to debug this or what might
> be going on?
>

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Bill Heagy
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