Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:46:46 -0400
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: later kernels vs ntpd
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Greetings;

I'm observing that the last time ntpd logged that it was synchronized
with a time src, was:

6 Aug 17:44:36 ntpd[1886]: synchronized to 140.221.8.88, stratum=1

This was about a week before I left for month long trip, and I left it
running 2.6.13-rc6 which had been stable for several days prior to my
leaving.  In early September, I had to lead the missus thru a reboot
because the system time had jumped to some other time zone and the
heyu based lighting automation was afu.  That seemed to fix it till I
got back on the 14th.  At that time I noted that my watch appeared to be 
off
by several minutes.  The next day I did a 'service ntpd restart',
which backed the system time up about 4 minutes, bringing my watch a
lot closer.

Then I noticed that yesterday, before I built and installed 2.6.13.1,
that ntpd was apparently not synching.  A restart, which runs ntpdate
to crash set the clocks, does work, but ntpd is not.  I haven't
changed anything in the configs for ntpd in several months.

Historicly, this box has lost track of what time zone its on on
several occasions, but I believe this is a seperate problem.

Is anyone else having ntpd synch problems?  Take a look at
your /var/log/ntpd.log just for grins.  All I'm getting is the
restart messages, like these:

18 Sep 10:41:44 ntpd[17787]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
18 Sep 10:37:07 ntpd[29714]: running as uid(38)/gid(38)
euid(38)/egid(38).

>From the restart I just did, note the time reset of over 4 minutes.

>From the dates on my /boot/vmlinuz* files, it worked for 2.6.13-rc5,
but not for rc6 & (apparently) later.

Comments anybody?

I'm going to reboot to an older kernel (2.6.13-rc5) as a check, if
ntpd starts working, I'll advise here.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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