OT: linux kernel problem

[Edwin Rhodes]

when compiling my linux kernel i keep on recieving this message:

Warning: Clock Skew Detected Build May Be Incomplete

It seams to compile ok.
What does this error message mean?? and how can i fix it.

thanks
edwin

ps. I have only been getting this message since i upgraded to an AMD K6-2 500Mhz.

[Simo Sorce]

> Edwin Rhodes wrote:
>
> when compiling my linux kernel i keep on recieving this message:
>
> Warning: Clock Skew Detected Build May Be Incomplete
>
> It seams to compile ok.
> What does this error message mean?? and how can i fix it.
>
> thanks
> edwin
>
> ps. I have only been getting this message since i upgraded to an AMD
> K6-2 500Mhz.

It mean that you have changed (backward) you clock time and some files
are clocked in future (from the system clock point of view), this skrew
compilation beacuse makefile check file times to know which has been
modified (and require recompilation) and those that are not modified !
check your system time and your files time.

[Jens Dreger]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 11:00:35AM -0000, Edwin Rhodes wrote:
> when compiling my linux kernel i keep on recieving this message:
>
> Warning: Clock Skew Detected Build May Be Incomplete
>
> It seams to compile ok.
> What does this error message mean?? and how can i fix it.

This warning is issued be make. It means, that the modification and
access times of some files don't make much sense. Can be caused by
invalid system time.

Example:
~> touch -d"1 Jan 2001" 1; echo 1: | make -f -
make: *** Warning: File `1' has modification time in the future
      (2001-01-01 00:00:00 > 2000-07-17 03:48:02)
make: Nothing to be done for `1'.
make: *** Warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be
      incomplete.

Regards,

Jens.
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[Ronald G Minnich]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Edwin Rhodes wrote:
> Warning: Clock Skew Detected Build May Be Incomplete

means your clock was off at some point, or your nfs server (if you have
one) is off.

ron

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