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the bios hardware clock may just be crap. trying setting ntp-client to
run at startup

emerge ntp (if its not already)

set up /etc/ntp.conf

rc-update add ntp-client boot


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:50:46 -0400
Andrew MooJin Park <andrew@clevelandbusinesstech.com> wrote:

> It seems as though everytime I start up my gentoo box, the time is
> wrong. I fix the time, but the next time I start it up, the time is
> wrong again. I am sure it is not the UTC / Local time issue, where the
> "hours" do not set correctly. (Gentoo is set to Eastern Local Time.)
>
> At first, I thought it was the compiles or game play that was slowing
> down my clock. (Which has happened on my Windows desktop before.) But
> now, my clock seems to fast forward. Not only by hours, but minutes.
>
> I have an NForce2 board, if that is any help.
>
> Andrew
>
>
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Hi,

I installed ntpd and ntp-client too. I found after ntp-client in the
ntpd's init-script, and a suggestion on forums to add ntpd to default
run-level. The after keyword works only at one runlevel, so I added
ntp-client to default runlevel, other case the after keyword is useless.
Did I do a mistake? Can I have any trouble if my ntp-client and ntpd are
in default runlevel?
Generally, can anybody show me the point of boot and the point of
default runlevel in the boot-sequence?

TIA.
Cheers,
Tamas Sarga
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Nick Rout wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:06:52 +1300
> From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, andrew@clevelandbusinesstech.com
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clock jumping randomly
>
> the bios hardware clock may just be crap. trying setting ntp-client to
> run at startup
>
> emerge ntp (if its not already)
>
> set up /etc/ntp.conf
>
> rc-update add ntp-client boot
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:50:46 -0400
> Andrew MooJin Park <andrew@clevelandbusinesstech.com> wrote:
>
> > It seems as though everytime I start up my gentoo box, the time is
> > wrong. I fix the time, but the next time I start it up, the time is
> > wrong again. I am sure it is not the UTC / Local time issue, where the
> > "hours" do not set correctly. (Gentoo is set to Eastern Local Time.)
> >
> > At first, I thought it was the compiles or game play that was slowing
> > down my clock. (Which has happened on my Windows desktop before.) But
> > now, my clock seems to fast forward. Not only by hours, but minutes.
> >
> > I have an NForce2 board, if that is any help.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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>
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> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
>
>
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Francisco Ares wrote:

> I'm also having that jumping clock problem. It's happening since one of
> my recent emerge -uD world.

With the new baselayout, the clock settings were moved from /etc/rc.conf
to /etc/conf.d/clock.

Change CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no" to "yes" in /etc/conf.d/clock and it should be
OK again.

Cannot see why it defaults to "no"...

HTH

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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:49:19 -0300, Francisco Ares <frares@terra.com.br> wrote:
> I'm also having that jumping clock problem. It's happening since one of
> my recent emerge -uD world.
>
> As a workaround, I installed rdate (in the portage tree) and use
> time.nist.gov or 192.43.244.18 inside of /etc/conf.d/local.start
>
> But I really would like to know what is messing with my hardware clock.
>
> Can it be one of the timers I have enabled in my new kernel?
>

I've had this problem for 2-3 months now. I've found no solution other
than to run one of the network time solutions. However this is a
laptop and that doesn't work when I'm not near an ethernet cable.

We wrote two or three long threads on this maybe 6 weeks ago. It's
been a frustration for so long for me that I've pretty much given
up...

- Mark

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Temporarily remove the battery status applet and apm daemon and see if
it stabilises. Some kde apps are also known to do this. Basicly some
apps access /proc/? in a way that means the cpu spends a variable amount
of time out of action, with the clock being the loser. If you really
must use those apps (I have a laptop and I also need battery status),
use ntp with loose parameters and panic 0 to enable it to track. Chrony
is sometimes better at this though.


However, for Dell's at least, this problem went away some time ago for
me.

BillK

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 08:15, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:49:19 -0300, Francisco Ares <frares@terra.com.br> wrote:
> > I'm also having that jumping clock problem. It's happening since one of
> > my recent emerge -uD world.
> >
> > As a workaround, I installed rdate (in the portage tree) and use
> > time.nist.gov or 192.43.244.18 inside of /etc/conf.d/local.start
> >
> > But I really would like to know what is messing with my hardware clock.
> >
> > Can it be one of the timers I have enabled in my new kernel?
> >
>
> I've had this problem for 2-3 months now. I've found no solution other
> than to run one of the network time solutions. However this is a
> laptop and that doesn't work when I'm not near an ethernet cable.
>
> We wrote two or three long threads on this maybe 6 weeks ago. It's
> been a frustration for so long for me that I've pretty much given
> up...
>
> - Mark
>
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>
>


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I'm also having that jumping clock problem. It's happening since one of
my recent emerge -uD world.

As a workaround, I installed rdate (in the portage tree) and use
time.nist.gov or 192.43.244.18 inside of /etc/conf.d/local.start

But I really would like to know what is messing with my hardware clock.

Can it be one of the timers I have enabled in my new kernel?

Francisco


Tamas Sarga wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I installed ntpd and ntp-client too. I found after ntp-client in the
>ntpd's init-script, and a suggestion on forums to add ntpd to default
>run-level. The after keyword works only at one runlevel, so I added
>ntp-client to default runlevel, other case the after keyword is useless.
>Did I do a mistake? Can I have any trouble if my ntp-client and ntpd are
>in default runlevel?
>Generally, can anybody show me the point of boot and the point of
>default runlevel in the boot-sequence?
>
>TIA.
>Cheers,
>Tamas Sarga
>--
>A day is 24 hours long. Egy nap 24 órából áll.
>A box of beer contains 24 bottles. Egy tálcán 24 üveg sör van.
>I don't believe in coincidence. Nem hiszek a véletlenekben.
>
>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>
>
>>Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:06:52 +1300
>>From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
>>Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, andrew@clevelandbusinesstech.com
>>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clock jumping randomly
>>
>>the bios hardware clock may just be crap. trying setting ntp-client to
>>run at startup
>>
>>emerge ntp (if its not already)
>>
>>set up /etc/ntp.conf
>>
>>rc-update add ntp-client boot
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:50:46 -0400
>>Andrew MooJin Park <andrew@clevelandbusinesstech.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>It seems as though everytime I start up my gentoo box, the time is
>>>wrong. I fix the time, but the next time I start it up, the time is
>>>wrong again. I am sure it is not the UTC / Local time issue, where the
>>>"hours" do not set correctly. (Gentoo is set to Eastern Local Time.)
>>>
>>>At first, I thought it was the compiles or game play that was slowing
>>>down my clock. (Which has happened on my Windows desktop before.) But
>>>now, my clock seems to fast forward. Not only by hours, but minutes.
>>>
>>>I have an NForce2 board, if that is any help.
>>>
>>>Andrew
>>>
>>>
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>>>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>>>
>>>
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>>Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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