Buildworld Fails RELENG_7

Dave Uhring duhring at charter.net
Mon May 19 18:31:14 UTC 2008


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 at 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.



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