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0003956unrealircdpublic2010-09-08 13:07
Reporterchotaire Assigned Tosyzop  
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Platformx86OSQNXOS Version6.5.0
Product Version3.2.8 
Fixed in Version3.2.9-RC1 
Summary0003956: Timing issue on QNX 6.5.0 in ircd.c
DescriptionWhen starting unrealircd on QNX 6.5.0, everything seems to work just fine until taking a peak into ircd.log:

[Thu Sep 2 02:19:41 2010] - TIME SYNCH: timeserver=1283818771, our=1283386781, offset = 431990 [old offset: 37]

[Tue Sep 7 02:19:31 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-1283818771 seconds (0 -> 1283818771)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:31 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:31 2010] - [TimeShift] The (IRCd) clock was set backwards. Waiting for time to be OK again. This will be in -1283818771 seconds
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:34 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818771 -> 1283818774)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:34 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:37 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818774 -> 1283818777)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:37 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:40 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818777 -> 1283818780)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:40 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:43 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818780 -> 1283818783)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:43 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:46 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818783 -> 1283818786)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:46 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:49 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818786 -> 1283818789)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:49 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:52 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818789 -> 1283818792)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:52 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:55 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818792 -> 1283818795)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:55 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:58 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818795 -> 1283818798)
[Tue Sep 7 02:19:58 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:20:01 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818798 -> 1283818801)
[Tue Sep 7 02:20:01 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:20:04 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818801 -> 1283818804)
[Tue Sep 7 02:20:04 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!
[Tue Sep 7 02:20:07 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-3 seconds (1283818804 -> 1283818807)
[Tue Sep 7 02:20:07 2010] - [TimeShift] Resetting a few timers to prevent IRCd freeze!

System clock has been verified to run quite ok. It does lag behind a second every few minutes when running as virtual machine but I fixed this using regular ntpdate updates from local timeserver so the system clock is at no time ever lagging behind more than one second. kern.hz setting or similar seems to be read-only on QNX.

This problem with ircd.c seems to prevent autoconnect for links (it just doesn't happen). If however manually linking the server, there is never any message about "PLEASE SYNC YOUR CLOCKS!" and similar. When linked, I see no problems on IRC network other than flooding local opers with notices (see ircd.log above) every 3 seconds.
Steps To ReproduceCompile unrealircd 3.2.8.1 on QNX 6.5.0 and ./unreal start ; tail -f ircd.log.
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ohnobinki

2010-09-07 17:28

reporter   ~0016330

Is this a dupe of 0003853?

chotaire

2010-09-07 18:10

reporter   ~0016332

For the autoconnect issue only.

syzop

2010-09-08 13:07

administrator   ~0016340

Last edited: 2010-09-08 13:08

[Thu Sep 2 02:19:41 2010] - TIME SYNCH: timeserver=1283818771, our=1283386781, offset = 431990 [old offset: 37]

that's quite a lot :)

[Tue Sep 7 02:19:31 2010] - WARNING: Time running backwards! Clock set back ~-1283818771 seconds (0 -> 1283818771)

this is a bug, timeofday is zero the first time... what I don't understand though is how it could have triggered...

                if (timeofday - oldtimeofday < NEGATIVE_SHIFT_WARN) {

if (<something> - 0 < -somethingelse)
that would be very odd :P

unless, TS / time_t on QNX is unsigned ?

that might explain the rest of the messages too..

Ah yes...
"The consensus is for time_t to be signed, and this is the usual practice. The software development platform for version 6 of the QNX operating system has an unsigned 32-bit time_t, though older releases used a signed type."

Fun.

Ok, I've fixed this in CVS [.877]:
- Fixed another compile problem on QNX, reported by chotaire (0003955 too).
- Fixed incorrect messages regarding clock going backwards on QNX 6 and
  later, reported by chotaire (0003956).

Thanks for the report.

If that somehow didn't fix it, let us know.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2010-09-07 17:17 chotaire New Issue
2010-09-07 17:28 ohnobinki Note Added: 0016330
2010-09-07 18:10 chotaire Note Added: 0016332
2010-09-08 12:55 syzop Status new => assigned
2010-09-08 12:55 syzop Assigned To => syzop
2010-09-08 13:07 syzop QA => Not touched yet by developer
2010-09-08 13:07 syzop U4: Need for upstream patch => No need for upstream InspIRCd patch
2010-09-08 13:07 syzop Note Added: 0016340
2010-09-08 13:07 syzop Status assigned => resolved
2010-09-08 13:07 syzop Fixed in Version => 3.2.9-RC1
2010-09-08 13:07 syzop Resolution open => fixed
2010-09-08 13:08 syzop Note Edited: 0016340