| Summary: | Time losing 4 hours everytime system is booted. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Scott Bogert <scottab> |
| Component: | redhat-config-date | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | 1.5.9-10 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-05-16 21:05:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
ntp does not symlink /etc/localtime... you should maybe run redhat-config-date Please read my bug statement above. I have fixed the problem and found it to be that something created a link from /usr/share/zoneinfo..... to /etc/timezone. The original problem occured after I enabled NTP and then did not have network upon reboot. I am not sure at this point what created the link, but it was definitely the source of my problems. I ran redhat-date-config on more than one occasion. Perhaps this was the source of my problems, as I enabled NTP from that gui, rather than thru CLI (laziness will get you ever time). Indeed, that is the problem, when NTP is enable via redhat-config-date, the original /etc/localtime is removed, and a link is created to /usr/share/zoneinfo.... then I'll change the component, cause this is no ntp bug.. Should be fixed in redhat-config-date-1.5.9-10 in Rawhide. |
Description of problem: System lost 4 hours every time I booted. After installing, /etc/localtime was a regular file. At some point after enabling ntpd, this was changed to a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York. This caused the time to be set incorrectly (timezone assumed to be UTC) during sysinit, before the /usr filesystem was mounted. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build system with separate /usr filesystem and hardware clock set to localtime. 2. Enable ntpd. 3. Boot without networking. 4. Disable ntpd. 5. Reboot Expected results: Time should be off by the difference between UTC and localtime, if Additional info: What ever is creating a link to the timezone file (ntpd?) is causing this problem.