[OpenAFS-devel] linux 2.6.11.4 and bogus 'setting clock back'

[Russ Allbery]

Kris Van Hees <aedil-afs@alchar.org> writes:

> The large number is (from the look of it) a regular time value (number
> of seconds from epoch), e.g. 1111023402 is "Thu Mar 17 01:36:42 2005".

Which indicates, given the message, that the client thinks the server has
a time of 0.

>> afs: setting clock back 10 seconds (of 1111023402, via 147.155.137.11 in
>> cell scl.ameslab.gov); clock is still fast.

Kris almost certainly knows this, but for other people reading, the "of X"
string in this message in AFS has historically always indicated the amount
of time discrepancy between the server and the client.

The solution is certainly to run afsd with -nosettime and use ntpd; AFS
time setting has a variety of very odd problems.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>