Gentoo, so fast my clock can't keep up.

shame · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

I've noticed a very strange problem since I installed gentoo a few days ago.
I noticed the first day that the clock was running slow, after about 2 hours of use it was 20 minutes slow. I reset to the correct time and later that day it was running over an hour slow. After booting into other distros the time was also slow so I figured the cmos battery must be dying, the comp is a few years old.
Well, I've been doing some work stuff and have only used suse for the past 2 days and the clock hasn't changed at all, it is still showing the correct time.
So earlier today I was playing around with vector and the time still didn't change.
Well I've been back on gentoo for about 2 hours and the time is running 25 minutes slow again.
I mean, what's that all about?

I'm on British time and gentoo is set to local time. Any ideas what's wrong?
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My primary OS is: openSUSE
Also testing/using: Gentoo - Vector SOHO - Kanotix/Debian Sid

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject:

Is is possible that the ntpd is running on the other distributions and is keeping the clock from drifting? Boot into one of them and see. If so, then I would guess that the hardware is slow for all of them, but some of them by default are configured to keep the time correct. A way to test would be to be sure that ntpd is *not* running on SuSE and see if the clock drifts.
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shame · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

I've never had ntpd running on an distro since I'm using a usb adsl modem with eciadsl driver and by the time its synched, every other boot process (such as ntpd) has already been run so its not much use to me.
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dirakh · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Gdańsk

I have the same problem, it began when I installed Gentoo 2006.1. I thought too that it's faulty battery or something but it seems i'm not the only one with that problem. I don't use any other distros and I don't have time syncing deamons enabled. I'm running also at local time and my time is set to Poland.

polygon7 · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 38

kamracik · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject:

so its not only my problem

: but my clock lost 5 minutes over the 24h :]

LoSeR_5150 · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject:

I've actually noticed this plm recently too... both on my amd64 and x86 boxes... I just setup ntp and forgot about the issue. Are there any other issues caused by the drifting clock that just having ntpd running wont fix?
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