From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:56:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:56:43 -0500 Received: from [205.240.230.3] ([205.240.230.3]:28228 "EHLO Stimpy.netroedge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:56:13 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:56:55 -0800 From: phil@stimpy.netroedge.com To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tmolina@home.com, sensors@stimpy.netroedge.com Subject: Re: time in the future during make for 2.4.0 Message-ID: <20010128115655.C4234@Stimpy.netroedge.com> In-Reply-To: <200101281949.UAA11123@harpo.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200101281949.UAA11123@harpo.it.uu.se>; from mikpe@csd.uu.se on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:49:38PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I had this problem when I was upgrading my kernel, and happened to do it during the daylight savings time roll-back. Confused the heck out of me for a while. Anyways, you can try 'touching' all your files, and do a 'make clean' then try again. If it doesn't complain about a long arg list, you can try 'touch `find . -type f`'. Phil On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:49:38PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:27:46 -0600 (CST), Thomas Molina wrote: > > >I seem to recall a discussion on faster processors causing timing > >problems during a kernel make, but I'm unable to find it in the kernel > >archives. I've now upgraded to an Athlon 900 MHz processor and an ASUS > >A7V motherboard and have started seeing this. It shows up as the > >following messages during a make bzImage: > > > >make[3]: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be > >incomplete. > >make[3]: *** Warning: File > >`/mnt/hd/local/kernel/linux.24.new/include/linux/sched.h' has > >modification time in the future (2001-01-28 17:41:05 > 2001-01-28 > >10:07:02) > > No, this doesn't look like the "fast CPU" problem you are alluding to > (look for subject MODVERSIONS in the archives). We fixed that one. > > Your problem is that your kernel source dir (unpacked tarball?) > contains files with time stamps several hours in the future; > 'make' doesn't take kindly to this. > > I've seen this happen once: during an upgrade (RH-style, i.e. not > fresh install) from RH6.2 to RH7.0, my /etc/localtime had become > overwritten and my machine in an instant moved from CET to some US > time zone 6 or 8 hrs back. Then when I unpacked my kernel tarball to > build a real kernel, I got exactly the problems you listed above. > > Check your clock & time zone settings. > > /Mikael -- Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR phil@netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil PGP F16: 01 D2 FD 01 B5 46 F4 F0 3A 8B 9D 7E 14 7F FB 7A - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/