Re: Clock skew error ?

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Amal D'Silva wrote:

> We have a UP2k+ with two 750MHz/8MB Alphas running Redhat 6.2 but with the
> kernel 2.4.1 loaded
> The board has a NEtgear GA620T, Intel EEpro100 and a Voodoo3 card.
> Randomly when we try to rebuild the kernel, we get the following message:
> " **** Warning. Clock Skew detected. Your build may be incomplete"
> But the new kernel is sucessfully generated.
> Any ideas ?

Check the time on your system and/or the timestamps on the files.  Most
likely, that message is caused by either your clock being set to a
date/time that is before the timestamps on the files or the files in
question have a timestamp that's very far into the future.

C