Time goes backwards

Kip Macy kmacy at freebsd.org
Wed Feb 4 20:04:37 PST 2009


Can you please try with the latest sources and let me know if you
still see this?

Thanks,
Kip

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Julian Stecklina <js at alien8.de> wrote:
> Mister Olli <mister.olli at googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've had time problems too. The clock did not go backwards, but forwards
>> for some time sime, and then jumped back to a certain date. Like
>> Sun Jan 25 00:55:12 UTC 2009
>> ...
>> Sun Jan 25 01:08:35 UTC 2009
>> Sun Jan 25 00:55:12 UTC 2009
>> Sun Jan 25 00:55:13 UTC 2009
>> ...
>>
>> It took me quite some time to find a solution that helped for me:
>> - activate the independent_wallclock in domO by 'sysctl xen.independent_wallclock=1'
>
> I booted the DomU with machdep.independent_wallclock=1 as kernel
> parameter instead. But that didn't work. sysctl still reported it as
> 0. I've tried setting machdep.xen_disable_rtc_set and
> machdep.independent_wallclock after booting, but it does not help either.
>
>> - edit and configure '/etc/ntpd.conf' in domU
>> - edit '/etc/rc.conf' and add the following lines
>>       # NTP stuff
>>       ntpdate_enable="YES"
>>       ntpdate_flags="-b <YOUR_NTP_SERVER>"
>>       ntpd_enable="YES"
>> - reboot domU
>>
>> If you try it on your problem, could you please give me some feedback if
>> it worked?
>
> Doesn't work. :-/
>
> MfG,
> --
> Julian Stecklina
>
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> program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C,
> so you don't. - Erik Naggum (in comp.lang.lisp)
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