greetings, each and every time i run yum or yumex, system time is advanced by 5 hours. this has gone on thru several updates, maybe even upgrades. centos = 6.6 current yum = 3.2.29 yumex = 3.0.5 for awhile, i did not mind resetting clock when i noticed it off. now, it is a pita because when i forget, emails and what ever else i am doing get wrong time stamps. i have searched for problem/solution, but none found. or i missed it reading search page. most appreciative if anyone knows of a solution. tia. -- peace out. -+- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. -+- CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:56:13PM -0500, g wrote:> each and every time i run yum or yumex, system time is advanced > by 5 hours. > > this has gone on thru several updates, maybe even upgrades. > > centos = 6.6 current > yum = 3.2.29 > yumex = 3.0.5 > > for awhile, i did not mind resetting clock when i noticed it off. > > now, it is a pita because when i forget, emails and what ever else > i am doing get wrong time stamps. > > i have searched for problem/solution, but none found. or i missed it > reading search page. > > most appreciative if anyone knows of a solution.Hmmm, that's a really strange problem. yum really doesn't have anything to do with your system clock. It just installs, updates and removes packages. I've never used 'yumex' but i assume it just runs yum behind the scenes. The only thing I can think of is that your system is installing a tzdata package and failing, and somehow you're replacing the time zone with the original each time you fix it. Since your date is listed as -0500, it would seem likely that it is related. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
> Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 03:48:36 PM -0400 > From: Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:56:13PM -0500, g wrote: >> each and every time i run yum or yumex, system time is advanced >> by 5 hours. >> >> this has gone on thru several updates, maybe even upgrades. >> >> centos = 6.6 current >> yum = 3.2.29 >> yumex = 3.0.5 >> >> for awhile, i did not mind resetting clock when i noticed it off. >> >> now, it is a pita because when i forget, emails and what ever else >> i am doing get wrong time stamps. >> >> i have searched for problem/solution, but none found. or i missed >> it reading search page. >> >> most appreciative if anyone knows of a solution. > > Hmmm, that's a really strange problem. > > yum really doesn't have anything to do with your system clock. It > just installs, updates and removes packages. I've never used > 'yumex' but i assume it just runs yum behind the scenes. > > The only thing I can think of is that your system is installing a > tzdata package and failing, and somehow you're replacing the time > zone with the original each time you fix it. Since your date is > listed as -0500, it would seem likely that it is related.I agree, so my questions are: - what is your TZ? - what does "[/bin/]date" show? - what does your hardware clock: "/sbin/hwclock --show" report? [need to be root to use that command] - is your /etc/localtime file a standalone file or a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/... ? - if a symlink, to what file? - what is the timestamp on the localtime (or what it's symlinked to) file? - what does "zdump -v /etc/localtime" return ? i.e., is it for the correct TZ?
On 06/23/2015 02:48 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: <<>>> Hmmm, that's a really strange problem.if there were no strange problems, i would have no problems. ;-)> yum really doesn't have anything to do with your system clock. It > just installs, updates and removes packages. I've never used 'yumex' > but i assume it just runs yum behind the scenes.i would think not, but something is happening.> The only thing I can think of is that your system is installing a > tzdata package and failing, and somehow you're replacing the time zone > with the original each time you fix it. Since your date is listed as > -0500, it would seem likely that it is related.time change happens even when there is no tzdata package. -0500 = utc -0600 daylight savings time = utc -0500 thank you for responding. -- peace out. -+- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. -+- CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .