[gentoo-user] extreme clock drift / openntpd won't sync

My system clock is running extremely fast... so fast that even openntpd (apparently) can't catch up! I tried (oh how I tried) to get the regular ntp package to work. I could correct my clock using ntpdate, but I could never get ntpd to sync with any servers (see notes (*) below). So I got fed

Re: [gentoo-user] extreme clock drift / openntpd won't sync

First add the line tinker panic 0 to the top of ntp.conf (for ntpd, not openntp) This allows it to step when outside normal parameters. Otherwise it will register the time difference but wont try and correct it. If it is drifting faster than the allowable correction rate, it will slowly move to

Re: [gentoo-user] extreme clock drift / openntpd won't sync

This is almost certainly a hardware problem. If it isn't a hardware problem, it is at least not distribution specific. This doesn't really belong in a Gentoo mailing list. That being said... Some rhetorical questions (in no particular order): Does the problem persist when you use Knoppix?