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Re: [Xen-users] domU time out of sync, ntpdate won't update it

To: Madison Kelly <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] domU time out of sync, ntpdate won't update it
From: Tait Clarridge <tait@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:34:15 -0500
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On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 13:03 -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    For some reason probably obvious that I am missing, my domU's aren't 
> updating their time properly. On dom0 I can run 'ntpdate 
> tick.redhat.com' and it properly changes the clock:
> 
> root@vsh02:~# ntpdate tick.redhat.com
>   8 Dec 12:59:44 ntpdate[27362]: step time server 66.187.233.4 offset 
> -186.959214 sec
> root@vsh02:~# ntpdate tick.redhat.com
>   8 Dec 12:59:51 ntpdate[27365]: adjust time server 66.187.233.4 offset 
> 0.000176 sec
> 
>    When I run the same on a given domU though, it *looks* like it's 
> updating, but doesn't actually:
> 
> root@sql01:~# ntpdate tick.redhat.com
>   8 Dec 13:10:08 ntpdate[1148]: step time server 66.187.233.4 offset 
> -655.452750 sec
> root@sql01:~# ntpdate tick.redhat.com
>   8 Dec 13:10:43 ntpdate[1373]: step time server 66.187.233.4 offset 
> -655.457543 sec
> 
>    Notice that it doesn't seem to relate to dom0's skew.
> 
>    Any tips?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Madi

I ran into this problem as well. Once I updated dom0 and
shutdown/started the domU it worked again.

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