Re: Clock skew detected?

[John Summerfield <summer OS2 ami com au>]

On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Hossein S. Zadeh wrote:

> Hi there,
> I just received a new server today. After installing RH5.2, I got the
> latest kernel (2.2.2), and compiled it. I noticed that any invokation of
> 'make' results in the following error:
> make: *** Warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.
> 
> I should add that the compiled kernel works fine. Compile of the very same
> kernel source on my workstation (also RH5.2) does not produce any error.
> 
> I wonder if the error could be a result of a faulty M/B or an almost dead
> BIOS battery? Any ideas?

Don't believe the others ;-)

Here's what I believe:
1  You untarred and built the first kernel on a filesystem mounted by NFS.
2  You built the second kernel on the machine which owns the disk and
exports it to the other.
3  The two systems don't agree precisely on the time. You need better
agreement than you can get by hand or with rdate. 

Possibly timed will do an adequate job: xntp will, but I found it tricky to
get going.

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