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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Chronyd settimeofday failure
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:57:18
Message-Id: jitetr$u05$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Chronyd settimeofday failure by Mick
1 On 03/03/2012 05:55 AM, Mick wrote:
2 > I am sure that the CMOS battery is dead in this old box and this may be
3 > related to it, but the error persists even when I restart chronyd after I set
4 > the date manually:
5 >
6 > chronyd[3105]: Fatal error: settimeofday() failed
7 > chronyd[3424]: Could not settimeofday
8 > chronyd[3105]: Fatal error: settimeofday() failed
9 > chronyd[3424]: Fatal error: settimeofday() failed
10 >
11 > This is what syslog shows:
12 >
13 > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: chronyd version 1.26 starting
14 > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Set system time, error in RTC =
15 > 1169296056129876.500000
16 > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Could not settimeofday
17 > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Linux kernel major=3 minor=2 patch=1
18 > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: hz=100 shift_hz=7 freq_scale=1.00000000
19 > nominal_tick=10000 slew_delta_tick=833 max_tick_bias=1000
20 > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Could not open IPv6 NTP socket : Address
21 > family not supported by protocol
22 > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Could not open IPv6 command socket :
23 > Address family not supported by protocol
24 > Mar 3 13:47:12 lappy chronyd[3424]: Frequency -36.574 +- 0.028 ppm read from
25 > /etc/chrony/chrony.drift
26 > Mar 3 13:47:21 lappy chronyd[3424]: System trim from RTC =
27 > 1169296066498122.500000
28 > Mar 3 13:47:22 lappy chronyd[3424]: System's initial offset :
29 > 2147481497.991868 seconds fast of true (step)
30 > Mar 3 13:47:22 lappy chronyd[3424]: Fatal error : settimeofday() failed
31 >
32 > Should I worry about this?
33
34 Maybe the hardware clock is too far off? Does hwclock -w change anything?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Chronyd settimeofday failure Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>