Qubes Date Keeps Reseting

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Hello, I am running Qubes 4.2.4 almost every reboot (not all) the time and date reverts to 2023 and 8am

Any way to fix this issue?

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Can you provide more information are you using ntpd , chrony or timesyncd ? Since when the issue is happening ?

Maybe you accidentally removeed the “clocksync” service in sys-net ?

This is strange because sys-net by default sync the date and time when you connect to internet and then dom0 take the date and time from sys-net and other vm at boot automatically sync the date and time from dom0 if i’m correct.

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Try replacing CR2032 battery in your computer, it keeps time when computer is rebooted or off.

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I did some stuff in dom0 before with the time following chatgpt instructions so maybe thats what it is now

Any way to check and fix?

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What things did you (try to) change? Maybe you could check the bash history to help you remember.

(Just a tip: I keep track of everything I do by logging it, writing protocols, and adding comments to scripts and code. Before doing that, I had messed up many more things myself than any adversary could have. It’s tedious, but it has ultimately saved me days of my life.)

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I recommend you to delete you sys-net dispvm , sys-net appvm, and sys-net template vm i don’t know what chatgpt did inside your sys-net vm so we will start from scratch.

  1. Install a new fresh fedora template update the template then restart the template

  2. As root open your terminal and enter those commands
    sudo dnf -y install qubes-core-agent-networking qubes-core-agent-network-manager NetworkManager-wifi network-manager-applet notification-daemon gnome-keyring polkit @hardware-support

  3. Create a sys-net appvm , in the settings of the appvm go to “services” and enable minimal-netvm, clocksync, network-manager

  4. Now connect to your wifi in the appvm then shutdown the appvm and create a dispvm “sys-net” and in the settings enable clocksync etc… (the same services from the appvm)

  5. In dom0 open a terminal and enter this command

qubes-prefs clockvm sys-net

just to make sure dom0 will sync the date and time from sys-net

  1. Optional try also to change the timezone in dom0 sudo timedatectl set-timezone “Australia/Queensland” it’s a debug guide from Qubes-Community-Contents/docs/system/clock-time.md at master · starius/Qubes-Community-Contents · GitHub

  2. Tell me if it work and if it doesn’t work we will try something else