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Re: clock problem on IBM ThinkCentre S50?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Aug 21 10:27:04 2006
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:10:20 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:26:52 -0400
> On Aug 20, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
> > I believe that ntpd will always log a single "syncronization lost"
> > message within a few mintes of startup
>
> Looking back through the logs on my HP machine, I see this
> message occurring some times after startup, but not every
> time; it was not logged following the reboot after the update
> to 9.4.29. I also see one non-startup instance where it was
> logged (Aug 10 19:23:39).
OK, it still means that the message isn't necessarily an indication of
a problem, especially if it occurs shortly after a reboot. Of course,
there *may* be a problem.
> > Right now anhedonia's ntpd is synced up
>
> I believe it was synced until some time last night, then
> started to lose again; this could correlate with when the
> following was logged:
>
> Aug 20 23:22:38 anhedonia ntpd[3254]: synchronisation lost
>
> (I first noticed a clock problem shortly after this).
>
> This came after rebooting with the new kernel (2.6.9-42.EL)
> around 2PM yesterday (but still with the older kernel-utils).
Is this sufficiently serious to postpone tonight's release?
Jonathon
