Bare Metal Edge installation fails due to the hardware clock time is out of date.

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• Bare Metal Edge installation fails at the "Select and install software" phase.

       

• The server's hardware clock is out of date.
• Select [Continue] > [go to shell] in the error screen above the UI to start shell, and if you check the /var/log/syslog you will see the following message:

Jan 26 20:06:34 kernel: [    1.627674] rtc_cmos 00:00: setting system clock to 1998-01-26 20:06:33 UTC (885845193)
.....

Jan 26 20:25:29 in-target: Setting up nsx-api-providers (########################) ...
Jan 26 20:25:30 in-target: gpg: key ######## was created 380459702 seconds in the future (time warp or clock problem)
Jan 26 20:25:30 in-target: gpg: key ######## was created 380459702 seconds in the future (time warp or clock problem)
Jan 26 20:25:30 in-target: gpg: key ########: no valid user IDs
Jan 26 20:25:30 in-target: gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
Jan 26 20:25:30 in-target: gpg: Total number processed: 1
Jan 26 20:25:30 in-target: gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1
Jan 26 20:25:30 in-target: dpkg: error processing package nsx-api-providers (--configure):

 

 

Environment

VMware NSX-T Data Center

Cause

This occurs when the hardware clock is old due to a hardware failure or other reason.
The installation process fails because the system clock, which is set at boot time based on the hardware clock, is out of date.

Resolution

Correct the hardware clock of the server to be installed.