Bug#410415: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#410415: ntpdate unable to maintain stable time

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:29:41PM +0800, clayton wrote:
> Package: ntpdate
> Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> This is the behavior I am experiencing:
> 
> 10 Feb 04:46:56 ntpdate[9287]: step time server 195.234.188.3 offset -6975.269708 sec
> 10 Feb 06:08:48 ntpdate[13281]: step time server 80.127.4.179 offset -2070.299497 sec

So, your clock's rate is off by about 0.42 seconds/second

> 10 Feb 06:33:20 ntpdate[13312]: step time server 80.127.4.179 offset -598.189759 sec

About 0.40 seconds/second

> 10 Feb 06:40:20 ntpdate[13330]: step time server 192.87.106.3 offset -175.634248 sec

About 0.41 seconds/second

And I'm guessing the rest will show about the same thing.

This looks like either a hardware or kernel problem to me.


Kurt