On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:53:07AM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi eveybody, > I recently discovered that the time on my desktop was wrong by several > minutes, > although it is running ntpd. On my laptop, which has exactly the same > ntp.conf, > the time correct. > Here are the output of ntptime on the 2 machines > laptop: > ntp_gettime() returns code 0 (OK) > time d753a7ab.725bfaa8 Tue, Jun 24 2014 9:30:51.446, (.446716067), > maximum error 188962 us, estimated error 4294 us, TAI offset 0 > ntp_adjtime() returns code 0 (OK) > modes 0x0 (), > offset 270.965 us, frequency 1.879 ppm, interval 1 s, > maximum error 188962 us, estimated error 4294 us, > status 0x2001 (PLL,NANO), > time constant 7, precision 0.001 us, tolerance 500 ppm, > > dektop > ntp_gettime() returns code 5 (ERROR) > time d753a7d7.19c92000 Tue, Jun 24 2014 9:31:35.100, (.100725), > maximum error 16000000 us, estimated error 16000000 us, TAI offset 0 > ntp_adjtime() returns code 5 (ERROR) > modes 0x0 (), > offset 0.000 us, frequency -500.000 ppm, interval 1 s, > maximum error 16000000 us, estimated error 16000000 us, > status 0x41 (PLL,UNSYNC), > time constant 7, precision 1.000 us, tolerance 500 ppm, > > I tried ntpdate, which actually restablished the correct time, but 30 > minutes later, the time has already drifted by 15 seconds. > > Any possible explanation?
ntp_gettime() error 5 is, according to the man page, "TIME_ERROR (clock not synchronised". So, in that case, look to your ntpd. Run "ntpq -p" to see the status of your peers and/or "ntpq -c assoc" for more details. The information there can be complex, so feel free to paste the results here :) > > best regards, > -- > Pierre Frenkiel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >
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