From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 18:31:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA9C1065670; Mon, 19 May 2008 18:31:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duhring@charter.net) Received: from mta31.charter.net (mta31.charter.net [216.33.127.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1666C8FC1A; Mon, 19 May 2008 18:31:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duhring@charter.net) Received: from aarprv04.charter.net ([10.20.200.74]) by mta31.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.03.00 201-2186-126-20070710) with ESMTP id <20080519183113.NQPO2641.mta31.charter.net@aarprv04.charter.net>; Mon, 19 May 2008 14:31:13 -0400 Received: from maxwell ([75.132.247.36]) by aarprv04.charter.net with ESMTP id <20080519183113.WDGK4495.aarprv04.charter.net@maxwell>; Mon, 19 May 2008 14:31:13 -0400 Received: by maxwell (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1D2212A; Mon, 19 May 2008 13:31:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:31:13 -0500 From: Dave Uhring To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20080519183113.GA55295@charter.net> References: <20080519151739.GA50653@charter.net> <4AB77C7C-55F7-4CC3-B842-E684F6C899E3@rabson.org> <20080519163825.GA32372@charter.net> <20080519165421.GA62264@charter.net> <20080519165925.GA77907@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080519170334.GA74159@charter.net> <20080519170619.GC77907@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080519180028.GA79392@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080519180028.GA79392@eos.sc1.parodius.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Chzlrs: 0 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Buildworld Fails RELENG_7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 18:31:14 -0000 On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:00:28AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Something I thought of while doing the above: there's been reports in > the past of problems with buildworld (or building software in general) > bombing out or behaving oddly due to clock issues on the local machine. > If you don't use ntpd, consider doing so. Otherwise, at least use > ntpdate once to set your clock to something sane. I hadn't yet started ntpd but [root@maxwell /etc]# ntpdate newton 19 May 13:29:22 ntpdate[55524]: step time server 192.168.0.8 offset -1.044724 sec I doubt that a second off would make any difference.