danilo salieri <lilong at ...> writes: > > > Hi there again and thanks to Martin for support. > Problem update: after all I got all my files in a mess and I decided to > uninstall and run everything from the very start (sigh!) but after a few > days AGAIN I ran into the same problem: Freenet application is not able to > boot, and this time the logfile is: > freenet.fs.dir.DirectoryException: Clock skew detected, datastore file > 'store\95\1-b38bb037f52115373113cee29711652f7a7b41260f0203' has a last > modified time which is 868288 seconds into the future > at freenet.fs.dir.NativeFSDirectory.verifyList(NativeFSDirectory.java:1950) > at freenet.fs.dir.NativeFSDirectory.<init>(NativeFSDirectory.java:908) > at freenet.node.Main.main(Main.java:611) > I tried to do what Martin said lat time but nothing happens. This time I > absolutely don't know what it comes from, any hint would be great (I don't > want to restart everything again!!) along with some explication (a bit into > technical would be ok), I'm getting kind of angry (with myself oc :'( ). > Many thanks! >
Somehow the timestamps on one or more files on your datastore have gone screwy, or your clock has gone back in time a lot, such that they appear to freenet to exist about 10 days in the future. Freenet cares about file timestamps, for some reason :) The Node Reference Status page displays stats on file access times, but I would hope there is a more important reason to do with datastore specialisation or something given that this is a fatal error. Devs? Is your clock right? On XP it probably is, more or less, because the default install runs an NTP service (Network Time Protocol) that synchronises with a microsoft server once a week. Maybe you turned it off though. This seems unlikely to be the problem for such a case of apparent large sudden change, but it's good practice to help avoid it. Also it's a good idea to make it use a more geographically local time server for better accuracy. See the XP instructions at : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/timesync.html Use a server from here that is in the "IT" ISO domain (well assuming you really are in Italy and not just posting from an .it :) http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/StratumTwoTimeServers You should be able to fix the file timestamp by renaming it to something else, then renaming back to its original name. I *think* the following should work ... - Open command prompt - cd "c:\Program Files\Freenet" (or wherever you installed it) - rename store\95\1-b38bb037f52115373113cee29711652f7a7b41260f0203 tmp - rename store\95\tmp 1-b38bb037f52115373113cee29711652f7a7b41260f0203 This will change the last modified date to the present and freenet should now be able to start. Unless there are many files like this :/ On *nix you could do a recursive touch on the whole store but AFAIK windows has no such functionality built in. Hope that helps, Bob
