kern/73277: The alternate system clock has died

[O. Hartmann]

>Number:         73277
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       The alternate system clock has died
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 29 11:30:14 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     O. Hartmann
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE
>Organization:
Departmen of Geophysic, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz
>Environment:
FreeBSD edda.geo.uni-mainz.de 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #51: Fri Oct 29 08:49:09 UTC 2004 root at edda.geo.uni-mainz.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EDDA  i386


>Description:
As cvsupdated today (29th October 2004, did buildworld/installworld and built new kernel (SMP/PREEMPTION as addiotional options to GENERIC and disabled a bunch of unused drivers, hardware ASUS CUR-DLS, RCC Server Works LE 3.0 chipset, SCSI equipemnt, no ATA drives, dual CPU 866Mhz PIII, 1GB RAM (2x 512 MB)) I can not use 'systat -vmstat 1' anymore as I could use before. In FreeBSD 5.3-BETA I realized this fault the first time and wondering this is back again.

Typing the above mentioned command results in "The alternate system clock has died. Reverting to ''pigs'' display". 
>How-To-Repeat:
Don't know whether this occurs on other hardware platforms than RCC/Server Works based mainboards.
>Fix:
      
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