Kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x2041: Clock Unsynchronized

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Anyone with experience troubleshooting this error:

kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x2041: Clock Unsynchronized

Something to do with the ntpd service.

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I think this has happened to me after an update on a device that has no realtime clock. On these devices, the clock is initially set by scanning for the newest file in /etc/, and the date stamp of that file is used as the initial value. If the files are too old, then certs are "out of date" and some other things don't work.

As I recall, I did something like this:

$ ntpd -dnq -p time.cloudflare.com
... wait for clock to sync ...
$ touch /etc/urandom.seed
$ reboot

and everything was fine.

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