installworld: check your date/time - Installworld NOT possible...

[Rob Farmer]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 16:06, Chris H <chris#@1command.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>  I've spent the morning grooming a fresh kernel on a freshly installed
> 8.1 amd64, from the DVD. I cvsup'd src && ports last night.
> Build world && kernel && installkernel went as anticipated.
> HOWEVER, a reboot to single user, followed by a mergemaster -p, followed by
> cd /usr/src && make installworld, returned:
> "/usr/src/Makefile", line 177: check your date/time: <current date and time here>
>
> WTF? Should I simply comment lines 174-178?
> Why does make(1) refuse to installworld? My date and time are correct (in sync).
> Any insight into this error would be GREATLY appreciated.
>

Did you run "adjkerntz -i" to set your timezone in single user? It
starts up with the assumption that your hardware clock is UTC -
depending on where you are (east/west of that), this can lead to files
created in the "future," which confuses make.

-- 
Rob Farmer