[Nottingham] flexLM and clock error

[David Wolfson]

cheers 'the list'

>>>> rogerlight at gmail.com 16/06/2005 10:52 >>>
>I had a similar problem and it turned out that some files had a
>modification date that was in the future compared to the computer
>clock. This leads it to thinking the clock has been dropped back.

any tips on how to do an effective search of this?

>>>> cczmoses at unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk 16/06/2005 11:01 >>>
>If this doesn't appease pehaps a 'little' bit of strace work might be called for to identify what flexLM is 
>referancing. Iif you've not done this before it can be quite time consuming and tideous ( | less on standby :-) 

O.K. never tried this before, but get the idea. I've had a quick go (see attached), and although I can understand some of it at first glance (mostly the  read write stuff ;-)) I don't really know what I'd be looking for. If anyone is curious and spots anything I'd appechiate pointers..


>Have the s/w people offered any other avenue to a fix? Is it a reseller or the manafacturers themselves?
Just happens that one of their reps is about today...

>Might be worth while loggin a call with the UoN Staff IT Helpline fi ti hasn't already been done. 
will be the next mail I send!

Cheers for the pointers, and I'll let you know if I get a solution other than reinstall,

Dave



>>>> David Wolfson<eaxdrw at nottingham.ac.uk> 16/06/2005 10:29:43 >>>
>We have a piece of comericial software with a flexLM licence, running on a RH9 machine. A while ago we had 
>a couple of power related problems (one surge that blew the motherboard, and then the boss blew the 
>power with some dodgy soldering!), which caused the clock to reset (sometime in 1929?). Once this was set 
>again most things ran fine, but the licence file had identified that the clock had been 'diddled with' (I believe 
>that is the technical term), and this software will now not run. 
>
>The software people have sent though a couple of programs to try and fix this, but nothing seems to have 
>worked. They're still trying, but I wondered if the list might have any suggestions...
>
>Cheers,
>
>Dave



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