Re: possible BUG: selftest about raw_skew failed

From: John Stultz
Date: Thu Apr 26 2018 - 17:33:20 EST


On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor
<jeffrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hello,
>
> failure of a test in selftest:timers
>
> selftests: raw_skew
> ========================================
> WARNING: ADJ_OFFSET in progress, this will cause inaccurate results
> Estimating clock drift: 17.910(est) 16.820(act) [FAILED]

So you're ignoring the warning above. If an ADJ_OFFSET operation is
going on, ntpd (or something similar) is changing the clock, which
will kill the estimated drift calculation.

-john