Karmic upgrade has broken the system clock

[drew einhorn]

I've had all my systems syncing via ntp for a long time.
But since the karmic ugrade my clock has not stayed in sync.

I turned off ntp.  And ended up writing a little bash script:

    while true; do sudo ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org; sleep 600; done

It produces the following output.

15 Nov 07:11:41 ntpdate[7129]: step time server 207.171.30.106 offset
-7.265514 sec
15 Nov 07:21:35 ntpdate[7215]: step time server 128.10.252.9 offset
-7.267561 sec
15 Nov 07:31:30 ntpdate[7334]: step time server 74.207.245.227 offset
-7.279796 sec
15 Nov 07:41:24 ntpdate[7862]: step time server 74.207.245.227 offset
-7.257386 sec
15 Nov 07:51:19 ntpdate[7927]: step time server 128.10.252.6 offset
-7.280644 sec
15 Nov 08:01:13 ntpdate[8002]: step time server 69.63.177.217 offset
-7.262078 sec
15 Nov 08:11:08 ntpdate[8052]: step time server 155.101.3.114 offset
-7.277998 sec
15 Nov 08:21:02 ntpdate[8222]: step time server 204.9.54.119 offset
-7.263816 sec
15 Nov 08:30:56 ntpdate[8348]: step time server 204.9.54.119 offset
-7.268109 sec
15 Nov 08:40:51 ntpdate[8450]: step time server 74.207.245.227 offset
-7.275060 sec
15 Nov 08:50:45 ntpdate[8497]: step time server 174.133.44.162 offset
-7.276354 sec
15 Nov 09:00:41 ntpdate[8575]: step time server 216.129.104.26 offset
-7.271786 sec
15 Nov 09:10:36 ntpdate[8631]: step time server 69.63.177.217 offset
-7.293453 sec
15 Nov 09:20:30 ntpdate[8814]: step time server 128.10.252.6 offset
-7.264526 sec

ntp can't fix a clock that is off by more than 7.25 seconds every 10 minutes.

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Drew Einhorn