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Bug#502338: progress bar jumps in a funny way when rdate produces strange results



On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:59:01PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> I just performed a test install on a Thecus N2100.  When clock-setup
> ran, the progress bar jumped in a really strange way: it went to 2%
> and then jumped back to nothing and then to 2% again, etc.  I think it
> once reached 6%... but basically it was jumping around quite a bit.
> 
> It seemed like an infinite loop.  But fortunately clock-setup failed
> after the usual timeout.

rdate actually try numerous times for each servers listed for the given
hostname.  clock-setup progress bar is reset to 0 each time a new server
is tried.  This was a compromise while improving progress and
cancelation support in clock-setup, as there is no easy way to know
how many servers will be tried by rdate.

But maybe this behaviour is too weird when the NTP replies are wrong
themselves…

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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