Bug#1070474: time sync overflows on ARCH armhf(Debian 12, bookworm) with systemd-timesyncd.service

Perr Zhang strongbox8 at zoho.com
Mon May 6 02:22:14 BST 2024


Package: systemd, systemd-timesyncd
Version: 252.19-1~deb12u1, 252.22-1~deb12u1
Arch: armhf
Distribution: Debian 12, bookworm

Timestamp of rootfs overflows about once a week, with a core dump file(/core) of systemd
the kernel is compiled from upstream by myself, the rootfs is built with debootstrap

root at Beetle-fox-Tbox:~# uname -a
Linux Beetle-fox-Tbox 6.1.68 #1 SMP Wed Feb  7 13:15:39 CST 2024 armv7l GNU/Linux
root at Beetle-fox-Tbox:~# stat /
  File: /
  Size: 4096      	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 8,118	Inode: 2           Links: 18
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2024-05-06 01:02:34.504540112 +0000
Modify: 2119-06-23 05:10:17.491093577 +0000
Change: 2119-06-23 05:10:17.491093577 +0000
 Birth: 2024-03-12 06:30:05.000000000 +0000
root at Beetle-fox-Tbox:~# stat /core
  File: /core
  Size: 19771392  	Blocks: 4784       IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 8,118	Inode: 12          Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2024-05-06 01:03:09.107874379 +0000
Modify: 2119-06-23 05:10:17.721082481 +0000
Change: 2119-06-23 05:10:17.721082481 +0000
 Birth: 2119-06-23 05:10:17.491093577 +0000

Arch arm64(Debian 12)'s systemd doesn't have this problem

similar problem:
https://forum.parallels.com/threads/time-sync-issues-on-silicon-mac-running-ubuntu-22-vm.362410/
https://forum.parallels.com/threads/fedora-39-occasionally-time-travels-95-years-into-the-future.363131/

I have add the systemd core(armhf, version:  252.22-1~deb12u1) file as attachment
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