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From: Alexey Mishustin <shumkar@×××××××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent "modification time in the future"
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:43:08
Message-Id: 1626623697.20110328014139@shumkar.ru
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent "modification time in the future" by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 28 марта 2011 г., 1:22:27, Volker Armin Hemmann пишет:
2
3 > On Monday 28 March 2011 01:14:05 Alexey Mishustin wrote:
4 >> Hello,
5
6 >> I performed the system update today (emerge -uND @world), and now I get
7 >> errors "One of the files in /etc/{conf.d,init.d} or /etc/rc.conf has a
8 >> modification time in the future!" at boot.
9
10 >> If I do
11 >> touch /tmp/tmp.file
12 >> find /etc -newer /tmp/temp.file
13
14 >> I get
15 >> /etc/
16 >> /etc/adjtime
17 >> /etc/mtab
18
19 >> Then I do
20 >> ls -l / | grep etc
21
22 >> and get
23 >> drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 4096 Mar 28 2011 etc
24
25 >> Evidently, there is no time of modification that should be the reason of the
26 >> error.
27
28 >> There is the same situation with /etc/adjtime and /etc/mtab (no time).
29
30 >> I tried to do
31 >> find /etc -newer /tmp/temp.file -exec touch {} \;
32
33 >> But it doesn't help. Dates appear but only till I reboot. After reboot I get
34 >> the same error and the same three elements - /etc/, /etc/adjtime, /etc/mtab
35 >> - have no time of modification anymore.
36
37 >> What can be the problem?
38
39 >> During the system update I updated 3 packages: dev-libs/mpfr,
40 >> media-fonts/dejavu, sys-apps/util-linux, recompiled 2: sys-apps/groff,
41 >> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (added some flags), emerged mailx.
42
43 >> --
44 >> Regards,
45 >> Alex
46
47 > check your clocks.
48
49 You were absolutely right, the problem was here. My clock was 10 minutes slow.
50
51 I did
52 /etc/init.d/net-client restart
53
54 , rebooted, and got nothing error.
55
56 But how my clock could get slow if I have ntp-client autoloading at default level?
57
58 --
59 Regards,
60 Alex

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent "modification time in the future" Alexey Mishustin <shumkar@×××××××.ru>
Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent "modification time in the future" Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>