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@rpardini rpardini commented Dec 19, 2025

  • 🍃 some machines have no RTC at all, or an RTC with a failed battery
  • 🌴 in certain situations, ntpd fails with "Alarm Clock" when trying to do too-big a jump
  • 🌵 in this case, set system time to the date of the dhcpd binary and retry
  • 🌳 yet-another-case where systemd would have saved us from pain

- some machines have no RTC at all, or an RTC with a failed battery
- in certain situations, ntpd fails with "Alarm Clock" when trying to do too-big a jump
- in this case, set system time to the date of the dhcpd binary and retry
- yet-another-case where systemd would have saved us from pain

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Pardini <ricardo@pardini.net>
@rpardini rpardini force-pushed the pr/dhcp-if-first-ntp-invocation-fails-set-time-manually-and-retry branch from 4b05820 to ffb856b Compare January 20, 2026 18:11
@rpardini rpardini marked this pull request as ready for review January 20, 2026 18:12
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