Re: possible BUG: selftest about raw_skew failed

From: Jeffrin Thalakkottoor
Date: Fri Apr 27 2018 - 11:28:01 EST


I kind of ignored. i was not sure what that meant actually.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 3:03 AM, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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



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