Description of problem: Since upgrading from Fedora 15 to 16, I've found that my system's hardware clock is no longer being kept in sync with the system time as maintained by ntpd. After a month of running Fedora 16, the hardware clock has drifted by 20 seconds. Consequently, every time I reboot, the system time is initially off by 20 seconds until ntpdate and ntpd start (I run both) and correct it. Syncing the hardware clock manually with "hwclock --systohc" works, but I shouldn't have to do that. Per the hwclock manual, ntpd is supposed to tell the kernel to sync the clock every 11 minutes, but evidently that isn't working. (ntpd does log "kernel time sync enabled" during startup.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ntp-4.2.6p4-1.fc16 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Confirm ntpd is running and in clock_sync state 2. Run "date; hwclock" and compare the results Actual results: hwclock off by 20 seconds in my case Expected results: hwclock in sync
You can verify ntpd sets the kernel bit with ntptime, there shouldn't be UNSYNC in the status field. I think it's a problem in the kernel, there were other reports similar to this.
Is this still happening with the 3.4/3.5 kernels?
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Sorry for the lack of followup before. The same problem still exists on Fedora 17 with kernel-PAE-3.7.3-101.fc17.i686 I see 1-2 seconds-per-day drift on two systems with different hardware (both running i686.PAE). No special NTP configuration settings are needed to reproduce; simply run "hwclock; date" and observe that the times are not in sync.
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