i think may be systemd-timesyncd was running. anyway currently the status is as follows... $systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service ● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-04-27 19:26:16 IST; 1h 11min ago Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8) Main PID: 514 (systemd-timesyn) Status: "Synchronized to time server 123.108.200.124:123 (0.debian.pool.ntp.org)." Tasks: 2 (limit: 4382) Memory: 1.8M CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-timesyncd.service └─514 /lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd $ The test in the latest run show "PASS" see below... selftests: raw_skew ======================================== Estimating clock drift: 26.836(est) 26.838(act) [OK] Pass 0 Fail 0 Xfail 0 Xpass 0 Skip 0 Error 0 1..0 ok 1..7 selftests: raw_skew [PASS] On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:28:29PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> On Sat, 21 Apr 2018, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor wrote: >> > selftests: raw_skew >> > ======================================== >> > WARNING: ADJ_OFFSET in progress, this will cause inaccurate results >> > Estimating clock drift: 17.910(est) 16.820(act) [FAILED] > > Was ntpd, systemd-timesyncd, or some other NTP/PTP daemon running > shortly before or during the test? > > The warning indicates that the clock was slewed by adjtime() or > adjtimex(), which makes the measurement of the frequency less accurate > and the test may fail. > > Maybe this test and other tests that measure the frequency of the > system clock should be modified to SKIP when adjtimex() returns a > non-zero offset (or the frequency changes during the test)? > > -- > Miroslav Lichvar -- software engineer rajagiri school of engineering and technology -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html