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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent "modification time in the future"
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:24:07
Message-Id: 4d8faaa2.4e01df0a.5bd5.6824@mx.google.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Persistent "modification time in the future" by Alexey Mishustin
1 On Monday 28 March 2011 01:14:05 Alexey Mishustin wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > I performed the system update today (emerge -uND @world), and now I get
5 > errors "One of the files in /etc/{conf.d,init.d} or /etc/rc.conf has a
6 > modification time in the future!" at boot.
7 >
8 > If I do
9 > touch /tmp/tmp.file
10 > find /etc -newer /tmp/temp.file
11 >
12 > I get
13 > /etc/
14 > /etc/adjtime
15 > /etc/mtab
16 >
17 > Then I do
18 > ls -l / | grep etc
19 >
20 > and get
21 > drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 4096 Mar 28 2011 etc
22 >
23 > Evidently, there is no time of modification that should be the reason of the
24 > error.
25 >
26 > There is the same situation with /etc/adjtime and /etc/mtab (no time).
27 >
28 > I tried to do
29 > find /etc -newer /tmp/temp.file -exec touch {} \;
30 >
31 > But it doesn't help. Dates appear but only till I reboot. After reboot I get
32 > the same error and the same three elements - /etc/, /etc/adjtime, /etc/mtab
33 > - have no time of modification anymore.
34 >
35 > What can be the problem?
36 >
37 > During the system update I updated 3 packages: dev-libs/mpfr,
38 > media-fonts/dejavu, sys-apps/util-linux, recompiled 2: sys-apps/groff,
39 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (added some flags), emerged mailx.
40 >
41 > --
42 > Regards,
43 > Alex
44
45 check your clocks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent "modification time in the future" Alexey Mishustin <shumkar@×××××××.ru>