Subject: Re: ntp problems
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:14:25 -0800
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On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 05 December 2005 16:39, john stultz wrote:
> >On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Greetings everybody;
> >>
> >> I seem to have an ntp problem.  I noticed a few minutes ago that if
> >> my watch was anywhere near correct, then the computer was about 6
> >> minutes fast.  Doing a service ntpd restart crash set it back nearly
> >> 6 minutes.
> >
> >Not sure exactly what is going on, but you might want to try dropping
> >the LOCAL server reference in your ntp.conf. It could be you're just
> >syncing w/ yourself.
> >
> Joanne, bless her, pointed out that I had probably turned the ACPI
> stuff in my kernel back on.  She was of course correct, shut it off &
> ntpd works just fine.

Err. ACPI stuff? Could you elaborate? Sounds like you have some sort of
bug hiding there. 

thanks
-john

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