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A week or two back I reset my system clock temporarily to 2001 in order to |
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install a package under wine with a time-limited installer, after which I set |
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it back again. Since then I have been getting really weird and annoying |
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clock behaviour. |
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For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock tells me that I am on UTC |
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rather than PST. At other times it tells me that I am on PST, but gives a |
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time exactly 8 hours in the future. |
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Now it is getting even weirder because I find that when I boot up and enter |
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kde, the clock shows a time approximately, but not exactly, 10 days in the |
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past. For instance the time now is 18 Nov 2005 10:03 am, but the clock |
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thinks it is 8 nov 2005 7:13 am. Yesterday at the same time it thought it |
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was 8 nov 7.xx pm. |
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Sometimes I am able to correct the time using the kde control panel. |
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Sometimes I am not and I have to use the other control panel I find in my K |
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menu (which I believe to be the Gnome one, but I'm not sure). |
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I have enabled ntpd in my default runlevel, and /etc/init.d/ntpd status |
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returns "started". However, when I select "Set date and time automatically" |
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in the kde control panel, I get the error "Unable to contact time server: |
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http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/north-america", and I get the same error no |
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matter which server I select or type in. The (Gnome?) control panel does |
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allow me to select "Synchronize clock with internet servers", but when I do |
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so nothing happens, no matter how many servers I select. |
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How can I get ntpd and/or ntp-client working properly? |
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This is my current /etc/ntp.conf: |
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restrict default noquery notrust nomodify |
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restrict 127.0.0.1 |
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restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 |
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fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 3 |
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driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift |
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logfile /var/log/ntp.log |
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server time.nrc.ca |
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server ntp1.cmc.ec.gc.ca |
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server ntp2.cmc.ec.gc.ca |
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server clock.tricity.wsu.edu |
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server wuarchive.wustl.edu |
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server clock.psu.edu |
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server gilbreth.ecn.purdue.edu |
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server molecule.ecn.purdue.edu |
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server libra.rice.edu |
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server ntp.cox.smu.edu |
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and this is my /var/log/ntp.log: |
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13 Nov 15:38:34 ntpd[7996]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 5 |
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13 Nov 15:53:30 ntpd[7996]: kernel time sync disabled 0041 |
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13 Nov 15:54:34 ntpd[7996]: kernel time sync enabled 0001 |
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14 Nov 05:44:27 ntpd[7996]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 |
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7 Nov 05:47:11 ntpd[9980]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 5 |
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7 Nov 05:47:11 ntpd[9980]: kernel time sync disabled 0041 |
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7 Nov 05:48:17 ntpd[9980]: kernel time sync enabled 0001 |
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7 Nov 05:56:50 ntpd[9980]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 |
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7 Nov 05:59:57 ntpd[10925]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 5 |
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7 Nov 05:59:57 ntpd[10925]: kernel time sync disabled 0041 |
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7 Nov 06:01:01 ntpd[10925]: kernel time sync enabled 0001 |
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7 Nov 06:16:23 ntpd[10925]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 |
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14 Nov 20:29:38 ntpd[24699]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 |
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16 Nov 21:45:26 ntpd[9972]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 |
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16 Nov 21:45:26 ntpd[10536]: parent died before we finished, exiting |
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17 Nov 20:35:43 ntpd[9948]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 |
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Note that there is no entry in the log for today (18 nov) even though I have |
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attempted today (18 nov according to both me and the computer) to disable and |
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reenable synchronisation through the (Gnome?) control panel. |
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Many thanks |
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Robert |
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Robert Persson |
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"Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." |
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(US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) |
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