Mar 4 19:58:57 [dovecot] Dovecot v1.0.rc25 starting up Mar 4 15:00:57 [ntpdate] step time server 64.62.166.222 offset -17885.542895 sec Mar 4 15:00:58 [dovecot] Time just moved backwards (1173056342 -> 1173038458)! This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. Both dovecot and ntp-client are in the 'default' runlevel. I note that ntp-client starts after dovecot. Dovecot detects any negative time offset, and then dies, as my logs above demonstrate. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:50:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.chem. wisc.edu/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fbcon firefox gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imlib isdnlog jpeg libg++ mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session slang spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xcomposite xml xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 intel8x0 bt87x" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
See, that why you should use ntpd deamon and not ntpdate to keep your time accurate. Time jumps (moreso backwards ones) are baaad... :P
Alright, I adjusted my hwclock to UTC (hwclock --utc --systohc) so the 5 hour offset to my localtime shouldn't be an issue at boot anymore. Also running ntpd now too. Thanks.
This should be fixed in rc26 also.
