Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 03:48:36 PM -0400 From: Jonathan Billings billings@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?