BUG: check your ntpd, it may be dead

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:09, Robert Locke wrote:
>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)....

Here is another data point, on a 2.6.12-rc1 (or rc2) kernel, htop says 
its running, with this command line:

ntpd -U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g 

Biostar mobo, XP-2800 athlon


>--Rob

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