NTP issues - Trying to get Trial Key

[Powleen]

Hi, I'm fighting what seems to be a time / NTP issue, being unable to get a Trial Key to check out the product.

Generated USB key with 6.9.1 & booted it. (I can boot command line just fine, GUI only gives me a blinking cursor, web access works fine.)

 

When I attempt to get a Trial Key, the pop-up window just flashes briefly when I hit the "Start Trial" button.
I was unable to find any log entry directly linked to this, but I can see that I seem to have issues time issues.
Log shows entries of this:

 ntpd[1772]: kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x41: Clock Unsynchronized

 

Checking system time:

hwclock
2021-03-09 08:05:48.012658-08:00

 

NTP is configured to check pool.ntp.org (I also tried google and NIST).

 

ntpq -c sysinfo
associd=0 status=0615 leap_none, sync_ntp, 1 event, clock_sync,
system peer:        any.time.nl:123
system peer mode:   client
leap indicator:     00
stratum:            3
log2 precision:     -24
root delay:         13.895
root dispersion:    65.752
reference ID:       194.0.5.123
reference time:     e3f21b8a.01a7cb9b  Tue, Mar  9 2021  8:06:34.006
system jitter:      0.000000
clock jitter:       3.219
clock wander:       0.167
broadcast delay:    -50.000
symm. auth. delay:  0.000

 

NTP time and HW clock are a match (ran commands a bit apart).
System has been running overnight once with pool.ntp.org, once with google ntp server and a few hrs with NIST servers. No change.
Any idea how to fix this, or what parameters are off / should be provided in addition?

[trurl]

time zone?

[Powleen]

Time zone on server is set to PST (-8)
 

[Powleen]

Oh Jesus... the time wasted!!
On my browsers I use uMatrix and getting key required an exception.
I'm normally pretty aware of this but checking for it was not present, rummaging around local appliances like Unraid.

 

That said I did have time issues in the beginning and tried hard to connect the dots there.

Edited March 10, 2021 by Powleen