Bug 465850

Summary:	Times jump back and forth in startup logs
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Joseph Comfort <Joseph.Comfort>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Peter Varkoly <varkoly>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.1
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Attachments:	recent portion of /var/log/ntp file

Description Joseph Comfort 2009-01-13 20:26:27 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081213 SUSE/2.0.0.19-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.19

I have installed SuSE 11.1 on a dual Opteron x86_64 desktop computer, with KDE 3.5.  I was able to eliminate kde4 rpms, except for the kdeupdateapplet, to ensure proper 3.5 behavior.  My time zone is Arizona(Phoenix).  I have set up ntp, to a server in Phoenix.

In looking at the 'messages' startup log, I see times jump back and forth.  The correct times show when the system shuts down.  But it goes back 7 hours when it reboots.  Finally, after a bootsplash message and a MARK, it is back to the correct time.  The hardware clock is at the correct time.

As I recall, I have not seen this behavior before.  It does not occur on my 10.3 systems.

A related case may be my laptop (which I don't have handy at this moment).  In starting up, I eventually discover that the time is several days off, not just hours.  I have to explore this some more, but I suspect it is the same problem as the desktop.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Alexander Orlovskyy 2009-01-16 13:00:07 UTC

Peter, can you look at the bug?

Comment 2 Joseph Comfort 2009-01-17 00:38:29 UTC

I checked my laptop a couple of days ago.  On booting up, the hour was way off. I reset the clock, and made sure the hardware clock was correct.  I rebooted several times.  First, it was 7 hours behind; next time it showed a previous day, and the wrong hour (possibly 14 hours behind -- maybe it was 21).  The minutes are always OK.  I seem to lose multiples of 7 hours each reboot.  Sorry for not being more exact.  I notice it, but am also chasing other bugs.

Comment 3 Peter Varkoly 2009-01-17 08:21:39 UTC

I do not believe that is a NTP problem. ntpd exits if the time delay is more than 1000 sec. And it is improbable that ntpd grant-exact deviation makes. I think this is an issue like #426270 (Time becmoes wrong in linux everytime after booting to windows) 

Please provide me the /var/log/ntp file. If ntp hase trouble I can see it in this file.

Comment 4 Joseph Comfort 2009-01-21 04:36:26 UTC

I will be attaching a portion of the /var/log/ntp file.  It shows the time behavior with several reboots.  These were usually shutdown/restarts, but one involved a reboot to windows for a short time.  Note the resets by 25200 s = 7 hours.

Comment 5 Joseph Comfort 2009-01-21 04:37:58 UTC

Created attachment 266382 [details]
recent portion of /var/log/ntp file

Comment 6 Peter Varkoly 2009-01-21 15:34:26 UTC

ntp works fine, this do not exit at all. I think this is an issue described in #426270.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 426270 ***

Comment 7 Joseph Comfort 2009-01-24 21:42:39 UTC

I am not convinced this is a duplicate bug.  A mod was proposed, which seems to work for the problems some people have.  Those problems are not the same as mine. The mod does not work for me.  See comment #68 in bug 426270.

This is a situation that has not happened in any previous version.  It is new, it is not right, and it is very troublesome.