On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
Regardless of whether or not the dates are being set due to a bug or improper setup with the clients or even with the filer, Solaris should not be choking. The correct solution is to get Sun to issue a real working patch, and not to use Solaris 7 in the meantime.
The problem is not limited to Solaris 7. I encountered the same problem on one of my Solaris 2.5.1 boxes. I was trying to remove an entire directory and it simply refused to remove one particular file. Since it was just one file I just pushed the whole issue aside until I could get back to it later. The next day I tried the remove again and this time it worked but then I realized I was not logged in on the Solaris machine this time but instead I was using on of our older Sunos 4.1.4 machines.