BUG: check your ntpd, it may be dead

Robert Locke lists at ralii.com
Fri Apr 15 02:09:57 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:32 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I suspect quite a few people are affected by this problem, but not all
> are aware of it, ntpd being a less "visible" service:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154759
> 
> So, everyone, if you're running FC3 or FC2, please check your ntpd
> service and see if it's still running fine. Perhaps poke at it a little
> bit, restart the service and see if it comes up, even restart the whole
> machine (if possible) and see if ntpd is launched automatically.
> 
> The whole thing seems to be a crapshoot, on some systems (typically new
> 2+GHz AthlonXP or Pentium M) ntpd is running fine, on some other systems
> (mostly PIII/800 Coppermine in my experience) it dies instantly. Maybe,
> if enough people report success/failure, a pattern will emerge.
> 
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
>  
> http://florin.myip.org/
> 

I'll add that my ntpd is not working.  Failure began with the update of
the kernel to 2.6.11-1.14_FC3, but was fine under 2.6.10-1.770_FC3.
Interesting part is that the startup is declaring that it is OK, but a
check of the running processes finds no instance of ntpd.  The status
declares that it is dead but pid file exists.

BTW, this is on a ThinkPad (Pentium M 1.6 w/ 1G RAM)....

--Rob




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