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[217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fl2sm31304259wib.4.2012.03.03.10.49.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:49:44 -0800 (PST) From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Chronyd settimeofday failure Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 18:49:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.1-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.7.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <201203031355.33315.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <jitetr$u05$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <jitetr$u05$1@dough.gmane.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4969689.Zh9GJPAOQN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201203031849.46101.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 475c9771-b192-4418-b701-329a330b6ecb X-Archives-Hash: ff6f2870fa7595d8a5febb09b80a09a9 --nextPart4969689.Zh9GJPAOQN Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 03 Mar 2012 15:55:39 walt wrote: > On 03/03/2012 05:55 AM, Mick wrote: > > I am sure that the CMOS battery is dead in this old box and this may be > > related to it, but the error persists even when I restart chronyd after= I > > set the date manually: > >=20 > > chronyd[3105]: Fatal error: settimeofday() failed > > chronyd[3424]: Could not settimeofday > > chronyd[3105]: Fatal error: settimeofday() failed > > chronyd[3424]: Fatal error: settimeofday() failed > >=20 > > This is what syslog shows: > >=20 > > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: chronyd version 1.26 starting > > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Set system time, error in RTC =3D > > 1169296056129876.500000 > > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Could not settimeofday > > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Linux kernel major=3D3 minor=3D2 p= atch=3D1 > > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: hz=3D100 shift_hz=3D7 > > freq_scale=3D1.00000000 nominal_tick=3D10000 slew_delta_tick=3D833 > > max_tick_bias=3D1000 > > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Could not open IPv6 NTP socket : > > Address family not supported by protocol > > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Could not open IPv6 command socket= : > > Address family not supported by protocol > > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Frequency -36.574 +- 0.028 ppm read > > from /etc/chrony/chrony.drift > > Mar 3 13:47:21 lappy chronyd[3424]: System trim from RTC =3D > > 1169296066498122.500000 > > Mar 3 13:47:22 lappy chronyd[3424]: System's initial offset : > > 2147481497.991868 seconds fast of true (step) > > Mar 3 13:47:22 lappy chronyd[3424]: Fatal error : settimeofday() failed > >=20 > > Should I worry about this? >=20 > Maybe the hardware clock is too far off? Does hwclock -w change anything? Yes it is - but I forgot to say, I usually set the date manually following= =20 start up, then I run hwclock --systohc and then I restart chronyd. Lately= =20 chronyd has started coming up with this settimeofday error. :-/ =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart4969689.Zh9GJPAOQN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk9SZ8oACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbClwCeP8L4bC24yWLLC58JW52LEJOl 1+cAn2oEnSFcJ8gh//zbiGC0KlsgCrAn =Q6tz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4969689.Zh9GJPAOQN--