Klaus -
Thanks for the report - sorry it's taken me this long to get to it.
The "Invalid argument" message is okay. The command
/sbin/adjtimex --print --tick 0 >/etc/adj.adjust 2>/dev/null
intentionally uses an invalid number 0 for tick, for the purpose of
getting this part of the printout:
9000 <= tick <= 11000
-33554432 <= frequency <= 33554432
That's where the script gets its values of $baseline and $hz.
The awk syntax error message quotes the line
BEGIN{print ((-10000)*100 + /65536.)*.0864}
This comes from the source code
BEGIN{print (($ticks-$baseline)*$hz + $freq/65536.)*.0864}
so apparently
$ticks = ""
$baseline = 10000
$hz = 100
$freq = ""
$baseline and $hz look fine, but $ticks and $freq didn't get set.
The command
/sbin/adjtimex --adjust >/etc/adj.adjust
is supposed to yield a report like this
--- current --- -- suggested --
cmos time system-cmos error_ppm tick freq tick freq
1201832730 -0.006608
1201832740 -0.008111 -150.3 9998 24455203
1201832750 -0.009527 -141.7 9998 24455203 10003 973220
1201832760 -0.008378 115.0 9998 24455203 10000 3812145
1201832770 -0.009608 -123.0 9998 24455203 10002 6301820
1201832780 -0.007195 241.3 10002 6301820 10000 3595037
1201832790 -0.008144 -95.0 10002 6301820 10003 5973299
1201832800 -0.008584 -43.9 10002 6301820 10003 2626424
and the values come from the last line.
Unfortunately it's working fine here:
vanzandt:/usr/local/src/adjtimex/deb# dpkg -i adjtimex_1.23-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 209344 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace adjtimex 1.23-1 (using adjtimex_1.23-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement adjtimex ...
Setting up adjtimex (1.23-1) ...
vanzandt:/usr/local/src/adjtimex/deb# adjtimexconfig
Comparing clocks (this will take 70 sec)...done.
Adjusting system time by 21.9015 sec/day to agree with CMOS clock...done.
vanzandt:/usr/local/src/adjtimex/deb#
To help diagnose this I would like you to try a couple things:
1) Run these commands:
/sbin/adjtimex --tick 10000 --frequency 0
/sbin/adjtimex --adjust
Does the last line look like the above report?
2) Uncomment these two lines in the script:
# cat /etc/adj.adjust
# echo hz=$hz baseline=$baseline ticks=$ticks freq=$freq
and run it. What gets printed out?
Also, what version kernel are you running?
- Jim Van Zandt
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