Hey Mark.
I'd also like to pitch in here.
Since about two weeks ago, my machines are no longer keeping time as
well. I'm getting errors when my systems boot during sysinit - the clock
script fails miserably, and some systems it forces me into console to
try and correct the problem.
I'm not sure that sysinit scripts have much to do with the system's
time, being that the kernel takes care of time - but again, since about
two weeks back, I have at least 4 systems that will not keep time,
regardless of hwclock or ntpdate commands.
The following message is recurring on these 4 machines:
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
Anyone know what's going on here?
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 2/13/06, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Anyway, I really appreciate your thoughts. Because this box runs
>>MythTV, time is *VERY* important. Imagine my surprise when I went to
>>watch the first day of the Olympics on to find out that my recordings
>>were off by over an hour and half. :)
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Drew
>
>
> Drew,
> Please excuse me jumping in here. I have seen no other emails in
> this thread so maybe I'm wasting time. I hope not.
>
> I have a number of Gentoo machines. For some reason in the last
> week or 10 days my AMD64 machine stopped keeping time. I'd boot it in
> the morning and even the day would be off. It was horrible.
>
> With a little help from others I found that, at least in my case, I
> needed to start running ntp-client in the default run level. I never
> ran this before but there appears to have been change recently that
> has made it more important. Either that or I was just lucky before.
>
> I've since added ntp-client on all the machines and things are now
> dead on as far as I can tell.
>
> One other thing that was recommended to me was to remove the
> /etc/adjust file when doing this. I did that also.
>
> Again, if all of this has already been covered I apologize for
> taking up too much time.
>
> Good luck,
> Mark
>
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