Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-03-31 Thread Lucky Greeen
Lucky Green wrote: I am seeing the following errors in the Tor log: [...] Feb 28 04:54:43.008 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4398 seconds backward; assuming established circuits no longer work. Feb 28 04:54:46.020 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4399 seconds forward; assuming

Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-03-31 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:44:25 -0700 Lucky Greeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lucky Green wrote: I am seeing the following errors in the Tor log: [...] Feb 28 04:54:43.008 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4398 seconds backward; assuming established circuits no longer work. Feb 28

Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-03-02 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
I'm guessing this is a kernel thing, so running date a lot will probably not help to notice it. Is gettimeofday() the wrong way to ask what time it is under vmware? :) Using select (or poll) and gettimeofday, while not technically correct, is the only portable way of writing an even-driven

Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-02-29 Thread Florian Reitmeir
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Lucky Green wrote: I tried several potential fixes. Unfortunately none of them worked. 1) removed ntp from the guest 2) Enabled time sync from the guest to the host using vmware-guest --cmd vmx.set_options synctime 0 1 (which, unlike editing the .vmx file by hand is

Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-02-29 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:01:48AM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote: I continue to see Tor report errors of jumps in the system time from 4397-4399 seconds. Strangely, this jump in time does not appear to be reflected in the time stamp that Tor assigns to the error message. maybe it will

Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-02-29 Thread Florian Reitmeir
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:01:48AM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote: I continue to see Tor report errors of jumps in the system time from 4397-4399 seconds. Strangely, this jump in time does not appear to be reflected in the time stamp that Tor

Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-02-28 Thread Marco Bonetti
On Thu, February 28, 2008 06:14, Lucky Green wrote: NTP: ntp is installed on the guest. ntpq -p shows a solid lock. remove ntp from the guest, it causes troubles. also, search vmware kb for clock issues, the most common fixes are removing ntp services from guest, installing tools on the guest

Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-02-28 Thread M
I am seeing the following errors in the Tor log: [...] Feb 28 04:54:43.008 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4398 seconds backward; assuming established circuits no longer work. Feb 28 04:54:46.020 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4399 seconds forward; assuming established circuits no

Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-02-28 Thread Wilfred L. Guerin
irupt probs on debian/etc is old kernel according to vmware, their kernels are old. 2.6.18+ fixed this. though there are other concerns on heavier smp sytems On 2/28/08, M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing the following errors in the Tor log: [...] Feb 28 04:54:43.008 [notice] Your

Re: Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-02-28 Thread Lucky Green
Marco Bonetti wrote: On Thu, February 28, 2008 06:14, Lucky Green wrote: NTP: ntp is installed on the guest. ntpq -p shows a solid lock. remove ntp from the guest, it causes troubles. also, search vmware kb for clock issues, the most common fixes are removing ntp services from guest,

Your system clock just jumped on Debian+VMware ESX

2008-02-27 Thread Lucky Green
I am seeing the following errors in the Tor log: [...] Feb 28 04:54:43.008 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4398 seconds backward; assuming established circuits no longer work. Feb 28 04:54:46.020 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4399 seconds forward; assuming established circuits no