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