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Time sync is wonky with VMs. This should be explored further and documented. Early reports are that it can get out of sync by significant amounts (hours) fairly quickly. \[alexp, Athena VM\] This has been seen to happen even if the VMware Tools time synchronization option is enabled. On Athena virtual machines, this kills Kerberos and AFS since these depend sensitively on time. |
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[\alexp, Athena VM] Leaving a VM suspended for about 5 days and subsequently resuming results in broken network and AFS. Restarting these as root did not fix them. It was necessary to reboot the VM. Athena 9.4.43 VMs can't be updated to latest release due to rpm conflict between WMware Tools in the VM and VMware Player in the Athena release (introduced after 9.4.43).
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