[SailfishDevel] Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 0.51 s in the future

[Chris Walker]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:22:39 +0100
David Greaves <david.greaves at jolla.com> wrote:

> On 14/04/14 14:49, Chris Walker wrote:
[snip]
> > Physician heal thyself!
> > 
> > I installed the ntp client and it now picks up network time. I'm
> > assuming therefore that there is some time 'slip' between the host
> > machine and VBox.
> 
> This works but is suboptimal.
> 
> Make sure
>   /usr/bin/VBoxService -f
> is running in the guest; it manages time sync.
> 
> Also https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html
> 
> Finally check your host is running the correct services and has all
> the right modules built.
> 
> David

I've just done the latest SDK update and this problem has resurfaced.

David suggested that I check the service is running in the guest.
Having just installed them, surely they should be running by default,
shouldn't they?

Note that I haven't reinstalled the ntp client on the guest machines,
they're still as installed.

If I run the VBoxService command I get this error which explains the
cause of the problem :-
 /usr/bin/VBoxService -f
VBoxService 4.2.12_OSE r84980 (verbosity: 0) linux.x86 (Dec 10 2014
20:45:30) release log 00:00:00.000146 main     Log opened
2015-01-06T16:49:56.390798000Z 00:00:00.000299 main     OS Product:
Linux 00:00:00.000350 main     OS Release: 3.6.11-10.1.7.jolla
00:00:00.000391 main     OS Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 10 19:12:11
UTC 2014 00:00:00.000421 main     OS Service Pack: #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed
Dec 10 19:12:11 UTC 2014 00:00:00.000450 main
Executable: /usr/bin/VBoxService 00:00:00.000452 main     Process ID:
984 00:00:00.000452 main     Package type: LINUX_32BITS_GENERIC (OSE)
00:00:00.003991 main     4.2.12_OSE r84980 started. Verbose level = 0
00:00:00.004647 main     Service 'memballoon' was disabled because of
missing functionality 00:00:00.005169 timesync Error:
VBoxServiceTimeSyncSet: RTTimeSet(1 420 562 998 673 016 000 ns) failed:
VERR_ACCESS_DENIED 00:00:10.005461 timesync Error:
VBoxServiceTimeSyncSet: RTTimeSet(1 420 563 008 668 012 000 ns) failed:
VERR_ACCESS_DENIED 00:00:20.005630 timesync Error:
VBoxServiceTimeSyncSet: RTTimeSet(1 420 563 018 663 012 000 ns) failed:
VERR_ACCESS_DENIED

At the time I captured this error, Qt Creator wasn't running, only the
emulator and build machine.

So rather than me tinkering and *possibly* managing to fix this thing,
what is the *correct* way to do it?