Karmic upgrade has broken the system clock

drew einhorn drew.einhorn at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 21:44:50 UTC 2009


On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> drew einhorn wrote:
> >
> >
> > ntp can't fix a clock that is off by more than 7.25 seconds every 10
> minutes.
> >
>
> what is the output of:
>
>
>  sudo cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
>
>
tsc


> and:
>
> sudo cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
>
>
tsc acpi_pm

I'm betting your current clocksource is tsc, which the kernel seems to
> favor as default on some systems, but just doesn't keep track of time
> all that well.
>

Bingo!

Now that we know what's wrong.  How do we fix it?

-- 
Drew Einhorn
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