When I run systemctl list-timers
, the last executed dates are far in the future. For example, this is part of the output:
$ systemctl list-timers
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Sat 2017-08-19 02:29:16 CEST 6h left Wed 2017-08-16 02:50:57 CEST 2 days ago systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
Sun 2092-06-29 22:30:00 CEST 74 years 10 months left Sun 2092-06-29 00:22:17 CEST 74 years 10 months left rsnapshot-daily.timer rsnapshot@daily.service
Mon 2092-06-30 00:00:00 CEST 74 years 10 months left Sun 2092-06-29 00:22:17 CEST 74 years 10 months left fstrim.timer fstrim.service
Mon 2092-06-30 00:00:00 CEST 74 years 10 months left Sun 2092-06-29 00:22:17 CEST 74 years 10 months left logrotate.timer logrotate.service
Mon 2092-06-30 00:00:00 CEST 74 years 10 months left Sun 2092-06-29 00:22:17 CEST 74 years 10 months left man-db.timer man-db.service
When I checked my backup, which should be triggered by the rsnapshot-daily.timer
job, I noticed that it stopped working about one week ago. Thus, it looks like the systemd timers are partly broken on my system.
I assume the problem will go away if I reboot my machine. Still, I am curious if it is a known problem and whether there any workarounds?
Restarting the timers did not make a difference (e.g., systemctl restart rsnapshot-daily.timer
). The last executed dates are still in 2092.
I'm using systemd version 234.11-8 on Arch Linux.
Best Answer
This is systemd timer behaviour that is triggered by a system clock that was at one point erroneously set to a time in the future, the year 2092 in your case: