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"Resettng system time" message
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:59 pm
by Steve Horn
I've begun to get a lot of these "resetting system time due to time lag by more than 10 minutes..." messages. Never seen them prior to V3.0. What do they mean and why do they mean it?
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:44 pm
by ScottBot
The message was to help find a problem where the system time would drift off on some machines. It will automatically reset the time (that's what the message is saying). I thought this was resolved for V3... but apparently there are still some systems that see it.
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:11 pm
by Steve Horn
So its saying my HB server box has clock issues? I'm not sure I understand your reply. Yes I am, I don't understand your reply.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:19 am
by ScottBot
Steve Horn wrote:So its saying my HB server box has clock issues? I'm not sure I understand your reply. Yes I am, I don't understand your reply.
No. Your machine is fine. It's just an internal problem in the system time plugin, but one which I still can't explain. The problem seems to be more evident on some machines, but there's nothing wrong with the clock on the machine.
It's not a new problem with V3, there's just a message now that states the issue and it will even correct the time when it detects the issue. I just haven't found what's actually causing the issue. In looking at the code, the condition seems impossible.... but it's obviously not.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:11 pm
by Steve Horn
Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't sure if I needed to replace my "watch battery" in the box.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:15 pm
by jkish
I noticed this message appearing when the HouseBot machine was awakening from hibernation. Not sure if this is the only case, but that is the only time I have seen it.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:48 pm
by ScottBot
If it came out of hibernation, I would expect to see the message. Depending on your setup, it may not be a great idea to allow the machine that the HouseBot server is running on to hibernate. If there are tasks that were to execute at specific times, they may get missed if the machine is sleeping.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:51 pm
by jkish
Yes, I agree.
I disabled the hibernation for the very reasons you mention - just thought I would throw that out in case it was the cause of other user's issues.