Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent "modification time in the future"

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Monday 28 March 2011 01:41:39 Alexey Mishustin wrote:
> 28 марта 2011 г., 1:22:27, Volker Armin Hemmann пишет:
> > On Monday 28 March 2011 01:14:05 Alexey Mishustin wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I performed the system update today (emerge -uND @world), and now I
> >> get
> >> errors "One of the files in /etc/{conf.d,init.d} or /etc/rc.conf has a
> >> modification time in the future!" at boot.
> >>
> >> If I do
> >> touch /tmp/tmp.file
> >> find /etc -newer /tmp/temp.file
> >>
> >> I get
> >> /etc/
> >> /etc/adjtime
> >> /etc/mtab
> >>
> >> Then I do
> >> ls -l / | grep etc
> >>
> >> and get
> >> drwxr-xr-x 42 root root       4096 Mar 28     2011 etc
> >>
> >> Evidently, there is no time of modification that should be the reason
> >> of the error.
> >>
> >> There is the same situation with /etc/adjtime and /etc/mtab (no time).
> >>
> >> I tried to do
> >> find /etc -newer /tmp/temp.file -exec touch {} \;
> >>
> >> But it doesn't help. Dates appear but only till I reboot. After reboot
> >> I get the same error and the same three elements - /etc/,
> >> /etc/adjtime, /etc/mtab - have no time of modification anymore.
> >>
> >> What can be the problem?
> >>
> >> During the system update I updated 3 packages: dev-libs/mpfr,
> >> media-fonts/dejavu, sys-apps/util-linux, recompiled 2: sys-apps/groff,
> >> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (added some flags), emerged mailx.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Alex
> >
> > check your clocks.
>
> You were absolutely right, the problem was here. My clock was 10 minutes
> slow.
>
> I did
> /etc/init.d/net-client restart
>
> , rebooted, and got nothing error.
>
> But how my clock could get slow if I have ntp-client autoloading at default
> level?

just two of guesses:
you don't sync the resulting correct clock to hwclock
or
/etc/adjtime is full of crap. If this happens again, remove that file.