On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 02:16 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 09:02 -0800, Robert Smits wrote:
It seems a kernel problem, not an NTP problem.
Actually, it looks way more like a hardware problem than a software problem. Normally I can run any of my systems for more than a month without being more than a minute or two off. Have you considered that the backup battery may be low, or that you have a power supply problem?
Please, remember that the system time does not use the cmos clock and battery at all. That's a different clock altogether. Plus, the cmos clock is running fine, I'm checking it at the moment.
Of course, one way to check it is if the same hardware shows different timing problems is to reinstall 10.2 but I know what a PITA that is.
It is very simple:
1 Nov 11:28:02 ntpd[4669]: time reset +0.493571 s 1 Nov 19:54:33 ntpd[6168]: time reset +0.324889 s 2 Nov 11:56:25 ntpd[6168]: time reset +0.493251 s 2 Nov 14:09:49 ntpd[6168]: time reset +0.761453 s 2 Nov 18:57:50 ntpd[6168]: time reset +0.267648 s 2 Nov 19:19:37 ntpd[6168]: time reset +0.633949 s 3 Nov 15:04:26 ntpd[4993]: time reset +13.963114 s <=== upgrade to 10.3 3 Nov 16:14:24 ntpd[4993]: time reset +126.365828 s 3 Nov 19:12:32 ntpd[5051]: time reset +42.074367 s 4 Nov 12:46:09 ntpd[5076]: time reset +22.996088 s 4 Nov 13:32:56 ntpd[5076]: time reset +393.672856 s 5 Nov 13:35:23 ntpd[5163]: time reset +351.141250 s
You see how the resets increase just the very day I upgraded to 10.3? It is thus a demonstration that it is a software problem. I do have a partition with 10.2, I could try that one again. But there is no need, the above log proves it.
Well proven, Latest patches were applied? My college builded last week a 10.3 system with truly very strange behaviour. We found out that the system clock --> was standing stil <--. Havoc! ntp would not work (drift to large), could not update, Only after a manually ntpdate he could repair the system. btw, you know that you have to be carefull with xen & time... (don't know if this relevant in your case) hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org