Time Out

[jgreco]

It's been only a few hours and I'm outta wack again (first time it's ever happen this fast). The clock is off about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Ntpq error message showed this:

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Oct 29 02:57:59 freenas ntpd[2190]: time reset -0.131017 s
Oct 29 03:56:28 freenas ntpd[2190]: time correction of 5833 seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time.

and of course, it stopped running.

Yup, okay, great, it's definitely hardware. No worries, yet, FreeBSD supports multiple timecounters exactly because of this: PC's ***SUCK***.

So now what I'd like you to do is to reboot, again. We could skip that and manually set the date, but I prefer not to confuse the middleware.

As soon as you reasonably can, once the NAS is booted, go to a CLI prompt and type

# sysctl -w kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-fast

and then check with ntpq again to make sure that ntpd is running happily. Check again in about five minutes, because it's likely that if anything is way off, it could go awry fairly quickly.

This is not a change that is persistent, but if it works for a day and ntpd remains happy for a day, it's likely to be the best fix. At that time, we can show you (or you can figure out how to) make it a sysctl value installed at boot-time.