[gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

[Harry Putnam]

Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the
> hwclock stays at the correct time.

Sorry to butt in here but I have ntpd trouble too.  It doesn't seem to
keep correct time.

I've just followed the advice to rm /etc/adjtime and the drift file so
haven't seen any results yet..  But shouldn't somekind of sync take
place when ntpd is started?

Further, I'm not sure I really understand what is supposed to be
happening.  I've recently switched form Fedora to Gentoo.  In the old
setup I just installed a ntpd package and added servers .. it all
worked from there... never noticed the time being off at all.

On gentoo I did pretty much the same thing but the time gets off after
while.  Today its off by about 8 minutes

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

[Antonio Coralles]

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote:

> Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > writes:
>
> > The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the
> > hwclock stays at the correct time.
>
Maybe you should look at this:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/124628/match=+clock+fast
antonio
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

[Frédéric Grosshans]

Le samedi 16 avril 2005 à 02:24 +0200, Antonio Coralles a écrit :
> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote:
> 
> > Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > writes:
> >
> > > The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the
> > > hwclock stays at the correct time.
> >
> Maybe you should look at this:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/124628/match=+clock+fast
> antonio

I've seen it, thanks, but it adresses the problem of a drifting hardware
clock. My hardware clock is fine, my problems comes from the system
clock.
Fred

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

[Iain Buchanan]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:33 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote:
> Le samedi 16 avril 2005 à 02:24 +0200, Antonio Coralles a écrit :
> > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote:
> > 
> > > Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > writes:
> > >
> > > > The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the
> > > > hwclock stays at the correct time.
> > >
> > Maybe you should look at this:
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/124628/match=+clock+fast
> > antonio
> 
> I've seen it, thanks, but it adresses the problem of a drifting hardware
> clock. My hardware clock is fine, my problems comes from the system
> clock.
>   Fred

are you sure this doesn't answer your question?  It solved my system
clock drift (which was about 30 minutes a day, but hw clock was ok).  I
know adjtime is used to correct inaccurate hwclocks, but it can get
stuffed.  post your /etc/adjtime and see what it says...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

[Frédéric Grosshans]

Le mardi 19 avril 2005 à 09:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit :

> 
> are you sure this doesn't answer your question?  It solved my system
> clock drift (which was about 30 minutes a day, but hw clock was ok).  I
> know adjtime is used to correct inaccurate hwclocks, but it can get
> stuffed.  post your /etc/adjtime and see what it says...

I've already played with it / deleted it and it doesn't seem to change
anything. My current /etc/adjtime is

0.00 1113497480 0.00
1113497480
LOCAL

and didn't prevent any drift
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

[Robert Morris]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:27 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote:
> Le mardi 19 avril 2005 à 09:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit :
> 
> > 
> > are you sure this doesn't answer your question?  It solved my system
> > clock drift (which was about 30 minutes a day, but hw clock was ok).  I
> > know adjtime is used to correct inaccurate hwclocks, but it can get
> > stuffed.  post your /etc/adjtime and see what it says...
> 
> I've already played with it / deleted it and it doesn't seem to change
> anything. My current /etc/adjtime is
> 
> 0.00 1113497480 0.00
> 1113497480
> LOCAL
> 
> and didn't prevent any drift
> -- 
> Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I am having the same problem here too. I still haven't sorted out the
cause, but judging from the number of people having this problem
recently, I would say that some library/program (or maybe config file?)
was changed recently to cause this.

All I know is, I only started having this problem recently after an
update. Up until then, my clock stayed fairly accurate.

Just for the record, here is my /etc/adjtime:
0.00 1112675669 0.00
1112675669
LOCAL


Robert


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