[Gllug] Fedora/Dell Clock Problems

[Dave Cross]

Quoting Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com>:

> On 30/03/07, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:
>> Nix wrote:
>>> On 28 Mar 2007, Dave Cross verbalised:
>>>> About a week ago the clock started to lose time badly. It seems to be
>>>> running at about half speed (maybe a bit less).
>>>
>>> Is ACPI enabled? This is a classic symptom of enabling ACPI on some
>>> platforms. You could try disabling it but that might break half your
>>> hardware... :/
>>
>> Having checked, ACPI was on. But now it isn't and the problem hasn't
>> gone away.
>>
>> My next plan is to boot the system with a Live CD of some other
>> distribution. That should determine whether or not the problem is called
>> by some recent Fedora update.
>>
>> But I'll still be grateful for any other suggestions.
>
> Are you running ntp?
>
> If not you probably ought to be.

Yes. ntpd is running. Always has been as far as I can remember.

Dave...

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