Clocks broken on Mac mini

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:38:45 -0800
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> hugh at blemings.org said:
> > Embarrassingly it only just occurred to me to apply some google fu
> > to  "Mac Mini G4 clock problem" and it yielded some interesting
> > hits.  
> 
> > "Clock Drift on Mac Mini (G4-based), ajdtimex, ntp" - undated
> > http://i1.dk/ misc/mac_mini_clock_drift_adjtimex_ntp.html  
> 
> > "System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4" (2014 on
> > FreeBSD) https://
> > lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2014-April/006931.html   
> 
> Thanks.  I poked around a bit but I guess I didn't try hard enough.


So what is your 'adjtimex -p' output?

Have you tried chronyd?  Then run 'adjtimex -p' again.

I see the adjtimex system call does some bounds checking.  Maybe
hitting that?


RGDS
GARY
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